31 January 2013, 02:38 PM IST
Art from Alphabets by Jaume Plensa
In the year 1999 at Chicago, the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa created a work called Whisper. It was made of a large circular bronze plate, string and a stick. Now so many years hence, at the India Art Fair, Gallery Lelong (Paris) brings Plensa's sculpture of Sappho the American poet. Looking at it is a stunning and stirring experience because Sappho is created from alphabets that have been fused into a latticework frame. But this sculpture is ephemeral and evanescent because you can see through the alphabets even as the work gives us a sense of volume.
Look around at the Art Fair - most sculptures will be predictably heavy and mass filled-even fibre glass works look like huge montrosities but Plensa's work will stand apart. As a conceptualist Plensa's focus is on the body. "The figurative tradition in monumental sculpture is such a 19th-century idea," said Mary Sabbatino of Galerie Lelong to this critic in 2010 at the Hong Art Fair. "But when you look at Jaume's work, you know it could only have been made in the 21st century."
Art from Alphabets by Jaume Plensa
Over the last decade Jaume Plensa has become one of the world's most celebrated artists for work at public places. He is best known for his monumental figurative sculptures anywhere from Calgary to Dubai. But ask this Barcelona native how he creates his work, which seems to involve feats of technology as well as imagination, and he prefers to talk about music, dreams and poetry. In an interview to the New York Times he is known to have said: "Shakespeare is the best definition of sculpture," quoting the "sleep no more" soliloquy from Macbeth. "You are working always with physical elements. You are always touching, touching. But you can't describe it."
Plensa has come a long way from 1999 when he created Whisper. It is almost as if this work is talking about the power of poets and their dreams because Sappho was the first Western woman poet who was known. This work silences you. You want to stand and take it all in. Years ago at Chicago, Plensa had spoken about silence-and these words hold true even today.
"Silence is desire, a dream, an aspiration, something so unknown and so inaccessible that we can only imagine it... Our silence is noise. Noise is the only bridge between sound and silence, between what we know and what we wish. As soon as all is quiet, when we think we have achieved silence, we discover that something interrupts something as close and familiar as our own body. Our noisy body...I invite you to listen to these noises. I invite you to imagine the slience."
This seated sculpture of the poet Sappho makes us think about silence and eternity-it also makes us wonder about the process and technique that a sculptor arrives at in his mind before he puts it to paper and converts it to reality. Either way at the Indian Art Fair this work tells us that we can take a real everyday person and blend into that human figure an abstract visual language to come up with a work of universality that cuts through boundaries and nations worldwide. Plensa had once told the Wall Street Journal:" Art should be an echo, a feeling of your heart, a mirror, a container of memory." Sappho will give Indian sculptors and collectors a lesson about the vitality of powerful and poignant public art- not the urban ugliness that lies all around us in the name of art.
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