Jaume Plensa
Sculptures and Drawings
Van Every Gallery
On View: October 23, 2014— December 17, 2014
Opening Reception: October 24, 2014, 6:00 pm— 8:00 pm
Artist in attendance for gallery talk at 6:00 pm.
Related Programs & Events
McGaw Lecture
October 23, 2014, 7:00 pm—8:00 pm
Free parking available along Concord Road, Main Street, and in the Visual Arts Center (VAC) and Admissions parking lots. Golf cart shuttle to Chambers Building is available from the VAC lot.
Conversation + Coffee
October 24, 2014, 12:30 pm—1:30 pm
Hosted by Hispanic Studies
Panel Discussion: Placemaking and Public Art
November 12, 2014, 6:00 pm—8:00 pm
Panelist: Jeff York, Public Art Director, Town of Chapel Hill; José Gamez, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, UNC-Charlotte; Shaun Cassidy, Professor of Fine Arts, Winthrop University; Thomas Sayre, artist; and Kati Stegall, Program Administrator, Charlotte Area Transit System, Art-in-Transit Program.
Jaume Plensa: Sculptures and Drawings, on view in the Van Every and Smith Galleries at Davidson College, is the first comprehensive exhibition of Plensa’s work in North Carolina. Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955) is one of the world’s foremost sculptors working in the studio and public realm over the past 30 years. Plensa has presented more than 35 projects spanning the world in such cities as Calgary, Chicago, Dubai, London, Liverpool, New York, Nice, Seattle and Tokyo. The winner of many national and international awards, including the 2013 Velázquez Prize awarded by the Spanish Cultural Ministry, Plensa has had solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; the Musée Picasso, Antibes, France; and Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland among many others. The artist lives and works in Barcelona. For more information, please visit Jaume Plensa.
The exhibition, programming, and publication are made possible through the support of Bacca Foundation Visiting Lecture and Artist Fund, the Herb Jackson and Laura Grosch Gallery Endowment, Davidson College Friends of the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council, Public Lectures Committee, the Arts & Science Council, and Davidson College Hispanic Studies.
Full color catalogue available for purchase, featuring an essay by Joseph Becherer, Chief Curator, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI.
