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Reading111 Sculpture

Collection of photographic images of works of art: the world of books and reading<br>(You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading themu2026

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Reading111 Sculpture

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  1. 111 Reading

  2. The Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) has acquired Spiegel (Mirror), a monumental, two-part stainless steel sculpture by the Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. The word spiegel means reflective image or mirror in German. Plensa’s Spiegel features two identical figures mirroring one another

  3. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) ‘Spiegel’ (Mirror)

  4. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) View of ‘spiegel’ at night

  5. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) Stainless steel sculpture ‘Body of knowledge‘, 2010 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

  6. First major UK exhibition of Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Stainless steel sculptures at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

  7. Jaume Plensa detail of ‘Body of knowledge‘, 2010

  8. Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Roots, 2014 Montreal Canada His large-scale sculptures are often conceived as transparent structures that blend in with the context of the local landscape. ‘House of knowledge’ is a central outdoor piece that utilizes steel letters to build a large human body, transforming the sculpture into architecture in which visitors can step in to. Many of the work incorporate light, sound and text elements to illustrate the notion of space in an immersive fashion

  9. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) ‘Body of knowledge‘, 2010 outside Textile Fashion Center in Borås, Sweden JaumePlensa‘Nomade‘Pappajohn Sculpture Park Iowa

  10. Jaume Plensa Le grand nomade Antibes

  11. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) View of ‘Nomad’ at night

  12. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) Stainless steel sculpture ‘Singapore Soul‘ (2011) Ocean Financial Centre

  13. JaumePlensa (Spain, 1955) Stainless steel sculpture ‘ Yorkshire souls I, II and III’

  14. Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Campus Westend Frankfurt Detail

  15. Jaume Plensa Close-up view of ‘Nomad’, 2010

  16. Jaume Plensa El alma del Ebro, Zaragoza, Spain

  17. Jaume Plensa (Spain, 1955) Shadows I, 2006 (Sculpture made of letters) The Great Cascade, Yerevan, Armenia

  18. Jaume Plensa Alchemist Boston Alchemist is related to other work by Plensa, which are made of stainless steel letters of the alphabet randomly arranged, painted white and arranged in the shape of a seated person with your knees up to your chest. However, instead of letters, the work of Plensa for MIT is created by numerical symbols, as a “tribute to all researchers and scientists” who have contributed to scientific knowledge and mathematics

  19. Jaume Plensa Many of the work incorporate light, sound and text elements to illustrate the notion of space in an immersive fashion

  20. Jaume Plensa, the famous Catalan sculptor behind Alchemist, has made several similar sculptures. His works Roots, Nomad, House of memory 2012, Body of Knowledge, Mirror 2012,Soul 2011, they all use the same body structure as the Alchemist, but are composed of different symbols.

  21. Jaume Plensa with ‘kneeling shadow’ Plensa’s sculptures can be found all over the world from Paris to the UK to Japan

  22. Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees has been awarded the 2012 National Visual Arts Award of Spain

  23. Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees

  24. Jaume Plensa Heart of Trees

  25. Jaume Plensa 'Tolerance‘ Houston, Texas

  26. Bookshop sign Vaux-en Beaujolais, France

  27. Rudyard Kipling (with Ape and Bagheera) by Vanessa Marston

  28. Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert Roze (detail)

  29. Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert Roze Amiens, France

  30. Statue of Jules Verne (1828-1905) by Albert Roze (detail)

  31. Huib Noorlander (Dutch, 1928-2004) Reading girl, 1960 Rotterdam, Korte Lijnbaan

  32. Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y- in Krasnodar (Russia)

  33. Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y

  34. Sculpture Lida and Shurik from the film Operation Y

  35. William Holmes McGuffey Memorial at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

  36. Southlake, USA

  37. Monument of Belarusian Written Language in Borisov, Belarus Restaurant sign

  38. Strobl, Salzburg (Austria)

  39. Tineke Willemse Steen (Dutch, 1920-2014)

  40. Victor Heinrich Seifert (Austrian, 1870-1953)Schoolgirl

  41. Victor Heinrich Seifert (Austrian, 1870-1953)

  42. Yotaro Bastian the neverending story

  43. Mark Twain Library, Redding, Connecticut, USA (James Armstrong) Thomas Jefferson, Fountain Hills, Arizona

  44. The Marktbrunnen in Mainz is a renaissance fountain located at the ″Markt″ (market place). It was crafted in the workshop of the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen

  45. Vancouver School Board

  46. Vancouver School Board

  47. The Pioneer Mother statue on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon

  48. The Pioneer Mother statue on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon

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