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Two large wire sculptures of human heads face each other on a grassy hill. Behind them, a landscape of rolling green fields and woodland stretches towards a distant horizon.

Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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Will Hudson
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Date
7 July 2011

Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Encouraging tactile and sensory exploration, this vibrant exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound. Found via designboom.

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Will Hudson

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Will is co-founder of It’s Nice That. Once one of the main contributors to the site, he stepped back from writing as the business expanded. He currently works across It’s Nice That, Creative Lives in Progress and If You Could Jobs.

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