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Arts Calendar
Oct. 7-Feb. 21
Meadows Museum: Santiago Calatrava: The Making of Wave and Jaume Plensa: The Making of Sho
Perhaps best known as the creative mind behind bridges and civic buildings around the world (including three bridges currently under construction to span the Trinity River in Dallas), the architect, engineer, and artist Santiago Calatrava completed his site-specific sculpture Wave for the new Meadows Museum building on Bishop Boulevard in 2002. At 26 feet wide and 68 feet long and in perpetual undulating motion, the sculpture forms a “living” and almost architectural extension to the museum building; it often marks viewers’ most distinctive impression of the museum upon arrival. Among the most innovative artistic minds in Spain today, Jaume Plensa is known for his monumental representations of the human form and for light sculptures that, incorporating items as diverse as trees and letters and shoes, elicit viewer interaction and participation. At the center of his work is an obvious devotion to meticulous construction; his sculptures are made of the highest-quality materials, and are characteristically clean and solid. This fastidious engineering is especially evident in his 2007 sculpture recently acquired by the Meadows Museum, Sho, a beautifully simple, albeit thirteen-foot-tall, portrait of a girl (the daughter of the owner of a Chinese restaurant next door to the artist’s Barcelona studio). The tranquil features of the face and head are formed by an intricate and carefully organized series of white-painted stainless-steel rods, which unite in a mesh of undulating curves. For information: 214-768-2516 or www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org
Meadows Museum: Santiago Calatrava: The Making of Wave and Jaume Plensa: The Making of Sho
Perhaps best known as the creative mind behind bridges and civic buildings around the world (including three bridges currently under construction to span the Trinity River in Dallas), the architect, engineer, and artist Santiago Calatrava completed his site-specific sculpture Wave for the new Meadows Museum building on Bishop Boulevard in 2002. At 26 feet wide and 68 feet long and in perpetual undulating motion, the sculpture forms a “living” and almost architectural extension to the museum building; it often marks viewers’ most distinctive impression of the museum upon arrival. Among the most innovative artistic minds in Spain today, Jaume Plensa is known for his monumental representations of the human form and for light sculptures that, incorporating items as diverse as trees and letters and shoes, elicit viewer interaction and participation. At the center of his work is an obvious devotion to meticulous construction; his sculptures are made of the highest-quality materials, and are characteristically clean and solid. This fastidious engineering is especially evident in his 2007 sculpture recently acquired by the Meadows Museum, Sho, a beautifully simple, albeit thirteen-foot-tall, portrait of a girl (the daughter of the owner of a Chinese restaurant next door to the artist’s Barcelona studio). The tranquil features of the face and head are formed by an intricate and carefully organized series of white-painted stainless-steel rods, which unite in a mesh of undulating curves. For information: 214-768-2516 or www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org
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