"A love song is legible across metal surfaces: the artist encourages the viewer to act, sound resonates the dissipates.
Symbolically, sound fills the room as a large sculpture could potentially occupy the room. Now immensity is transitory. Sound perpetrates as it surrounds, and in some way the relationship between audience and object as experienced with "Nomade" is inverted.
Questions of materiality persist into the silence, but Plensa has succeeded in giving form to a most abstract concept in a specific place.
Love, achingly personal yet acutely universal, is before, around, and even within us.
Finally, one must ask, if Muslims, Jews and Christians share Jerusalem, do they not also share the capacity of love?"
Jerusalem
Bronze, rope, wood, wool.
18 gongs, 52" diameter
2006
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