We are staying on a very busy retail street in the centro in Madrid, and was I ever delighted and surprised to see that an exhibition of work by sculptor Jaume Plensa was open, right here on our street! Plensa’s work includes the towers with faces and water in millennium park in Chicago, and a very large figure made of letters on the city wall at Antibes, France, as well as his distinctive long, narrow head portraits.
The exhibition is at the Foundacion Telefonica, and there were also really excellent exhibits there by other artists, on the themes of telephones and communication.
Adding in here we just saw another plensa in Madrid, at the plaza de colon. Seemingly a statue of Colin has been removed and this sculpture called ‘Julia’ will be here for a year, to be followed by other temporary works.
