Sunday Curator’s Tour: Talking Continents
May 19, 2019 at 3pm–4:30pm Jepson Center- This event has passed.
Free to members or with museum admission. To register, please contact Calli Laundré at 912.790.8807 or laundrec@telfair.org.
Join speaker Rachel Reese, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, as she discusses Jaume Plensa: Talking Continents.
Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955, pronounced ZHOW-meh) is one of the world’s foremost living sculptors. He is widely known for large-scale public artworks and more intimate and meditative installations that aim to unify people through connections of spirituality, the body, and shared memory.
Talking Continents is a floating collection of 19 cloud-like, stainless steel sculptures. Their biomorphic forms are made of die-cut letters taken from nine different languages. Presented together, they refuse to come together as words, existing instead as abstract forms, arbitrary signs, and signifiers. As such, each sculpture embodies a dissolution of meaning or breakdown in communication. At the same time, the letters comprising the works are also the components needed to reconstruct words and create meaning—the building blocks for cultural understanding. A firm believer that art has the capacity to transform our lives, Plensa has stated that Talking Continents represents the concept of globalism without judgment.
