Jaume Plensa enters the Royal Academy of Fine Arts: “My work as an artist has been to transform the self into the us”

Jaume Plensa has been making silence for more than three decades in a noisy era. His sculptures, scattered throughout the world, sometimes carry a finger to his mouth to invoke it. This Sunday the sense of his work found a reflection in the expectant mutis of the academics of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando who gathered at the Madrid headquarters of the institution to listen to the Catalan sculptor’s speech and receive him as a ne…

The sculptor Jaume Plensa has entered this Sunday at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which has awarded him medal number 37, with his speech 'From the self to us' built from texts that he has been writing throughout the years between 1990 and 2024.Continue reading...

The sculptor Jaume Plensa has entered this Sunday at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which...