Jaume Plensa

"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

Miró

"Touch - drawing experience returns in my interest in sculpture: the need to mould with my hands- to pick up a ball of wet clay like a child and squeeze it.
From this I get a physical satisfaction that I cannot get from drawing or painting."
-Miró

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta uses her own body as both media and subject to explore issues with gender and cultural identity.

She concentrated her work in the 1960's on earth art and body art, combining the two to create "earth-body art"- of which she is most widely known.

Mendieta's work is quite political and that is something that doesn't really interest me deeply, but I love the different media's and places where she has performed.

As well as using her body in performances, she also uses it to create scenes with a negative body which are just as striking.

Albert Hofmann

  When researching Francisco Infante-Arana, i came across a quote on a page containing Francisco's work.

"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings"

I then looked into the quote and founf that it was said by Albert Hofmann, a Swiss scientist.

He is famous for synthesizing Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) in 1938. Whilst looking through his work, I saw that he had been sourced in The New York Times just before his 100th birthday.

The quote from the article, and that from Francisco's page, includes a description that was linked to the image below. Both the image and the quote must have inspired Francisco's work as I feel that they strongly link together.

 

Francisco Infante-Arana

More images by the Russian artists.

These are more surreal in terms of the placing of the mirrors and the effects they have.

Francisco Infante-Arana ( and Nonna Gorunova)

I really like these images of mirrors placed in different environments. I love the way the images are taken so that it is not that noticeable at first and you wonder what it is.

"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings" - Albert Hofmann