Today's Observer Review included a photo of a piece in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Jaume Plensa
(whose website is here), an artist born in Barcelona in 1955 and now working in France, Spain and the USA. The image caught my eye because if shows part of a large sculpture of a human form, made entirely out of capital letters in a sort of mesh, made of metal.
The YSP exhibition website is here.
A Guardian article about his work is here. Lots more image, and interesting analysis of his works, is on this blog, Wanderlust.
The link is here. I am making a link because the blog says things so well I don't want to try and repeat ...
His sculptures are made of letters and words, but the whole structure is transparent and also large enough to walk inside, and through. When located outdoors, as in the 2011 exhibition at the YSP, the sculpture provides a kind of tunnel, with the sky visible through it.
Plensa has also made some installations using words suspended, letter by letter, in transparent 'curtains' on a scale big enough for the viewer to walk among the hanging texts.
This is a steel case he has made for a limited edition of a book about the art heritage of Catalonia.
More about the work can be found here.
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