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Plensa, Jaume – Solid girls heads
Identifier
029592
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
It is clear from the interviews with Jaume that he likes women, the feminine. Every one of his female heads depicts an actual person, a living breathing girl he knows
JP “These sculpture here have, as always, their eyes closed. This [pointing to each one] is Julia, she’s a girl from the Basque country. Here Isabella is from Sao Paulo [Brazil]. She, Carlota, is from Barcelona. She’s Laura Asia, a Chinese girl but from Madrid. Over there is a Chinese girl from Shanghai who is living in Vancouver. And she’s Paula, who is a girl living nearby my studio.”
Interviewer “ Have you met all these people? Have you imagined them? How do they come to have the names and residences?”
JP: “It’s an accident. In the beginning, I was asking to take a portrait of the daughter of friends and things like that. Now, many times, people say, ‘Look, I know a person, or, my daughter is wonderful,’ and I check, and if it’s okay, I take the portrait, and then I manipulate the volume of the face.”
Interviewer: “But, it’s still them.”
JP: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously I know the name”
Interviewer: “ They look so light, that they look ethereal.”
JP: “That’s something that I’m also trying to get – that these things disappear when you are walking. They are losing the volume. When you look back from the other side, I guess I brought something with the material – it seems they are floating. They will be like a drawing on a page in this way.”
But as we can see, even when he depicts real women he is pointing out that the feminine is the route – the sacred path to the spiritual
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