Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Jaume Plensa at YSP


If you live near Wakefield , Yorkshire (UK) you may want to go visit the Yorskhire Sculpture Park which presents some works by Spanish artist Jaume Plena. The exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound. OK, the sculptures and all are really cool, but you can even play a damn gong!! I'd go just for that. You'll be able to visit it until 22.01.12. Click read more to see the other works (gongs included) and a video of the installation process.







30 comments:

  1. Wow, these sculptures are great!

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  2. I don't live near Yorkshire, but I do live in England, damn I want to check this out.

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  3. Would love to check it out if I was near there.

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  4. Hey these are some awesome looking sculptures "]

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  5. The giant ghost heads are really impressive.

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  6. HUH...wish I was in Yorkshire right now!

    Sounds like my kinda exhibit too, gah.

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  7. How does the head look from the from though?

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  8. Those pieces are so amazing! :)


    xoxo,
    Addie
    The Cat Hag

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  9. Wow... those are incredible. I have never seen anything more amazing!

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  10. Those are some really cool pics.

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  11. HOT DAMN! I wish I lived close to that for photo-ops!! Man...seriously awesome stuff.

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  12. Oh wow, that was really really cool. I wish i was obscenely rich to buy all kinds of crazy artwork :)

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  13. wow you have to warm up a gong before you hit it or it can crack. i wonder if they give you a tutorial first.

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  14. @-E-
    didn't know that about gongs. Well I suppose they won't let people crack them so easily... But thanks anyway, I'll keep that in mind next time I hit a gong!

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  15. impressive pieces of art. nice photos, i lived for years at Manchester which is quite close but never heard of that exibition. nice post, keep it up

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  16. Wow, looks really cool! I would have liked to go... oh well.

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  17. Wow, those are some great sculptures. :D

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  18. re your comment: everyone is proud of his own country, i'm just advertising mine ;p

    jos xx

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  19. I like the work. looks 3d digitalized onto a real picture... cool stuff!
    followed!

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  20. In San Benedetto del Tronto, along the sea, there is a place made all by big stones, a sort of border of a port, and all those stones are sculpture made by unknown artist, ok nothing like that park, but they are still nice.

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  21. Will definitely have to see this before it ends, not too far away from me. Followed!

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  22. Those are so cool thanks for sharing.

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  23. Wow that looks amazing! Hope you post more stuff like this. Very awesome!

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