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Looking Up Thru Jaume Plensa's WE at night. Photo by Adam Kambeitz.
Jaume Plensa’s sculpture is entitled WE and it’s situated on a hilltop along Sunset Beach.
It’s a seated figure made of letters from many different alphabets from around the world. The figure is facing west toward the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.
It’s a powerful piece that is especially profound given the Olympic atmosphere in Vancouver right now. As a symbol the world community, communication and understanding, this sculpture is perfectly poised to welcome and inspire international visitors.
Local photographer and marketing professional, Adam Kambeitz, wrote up a nice piece on WE for MetroBlenz that includes some stunning photographs.
Great work, Adam! Thanks for doing such an excellent job.
WE in profile. Photo by Adam Kambeitz.
Life within WE. Great Shot! Photo by Adam Kambeitz.
We by Jaume Plensa. Photo by Vincent Argiro.
To those who have made the Vancouver Biennale possible,
I want to thank you from the whole of my being for the extraordinary urban artscape you have created. My wife and I were celebrating her birthday in town (we live on Saltspring Island) and saw a number of the works.
However, we were especially and profoundly moved by “We” by Jaume Plensa. I have travelled the world and been to many of the great museums, galleries and sculpture parks throughout it. I have never seen a work and an installation that so perfectly integrated form, meaning, and setting, nor created such inspiration within me.
Perhaps we were especially fortunate to come upon the work completely unexpectedly, and on a perfect day and time.
In any case, we are deeply grateful to the artist and to the exhibition for this experience.
As a token of our gratitude, here are a couple photos I took. You may use them on the Facebook site or elsewhere, if you so choose:
Best regards,
Vincent and Maggie Argiro
We by Jaume Plensa. Photo by Vincent Argiro.
We, Illuminated. Photo by Dan Fairchild.
Look at that! Isn’t that seriously amazing? I think that it is.
The sculpture by Spain’s Jaume Plensa entitled ‘We’ has resided at the top of Sunset Beach along Beach Avenue for a couple of months now.
And it has been glorious and awesome and mind-blowing and totally tripped out.
But… now it has been ILLUMINATED!
The freshly installed lights take this piece to a totally different level. I’ll do a longer piece on this at some point very soon but I just had to get these pics up.
Great job – as usual – by photographer Dan Fairchild.
We, Illuminated. Photo by Dan Fairchild.
We, Illuminated. Photo by Dan Fairchild.
We, Illuminated. Photo by Dan Fairchild.