BLAKE IN GATESHEAD, 1996
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, U.K.
Commissioned by: the Metropolitan Borough Council Libraries and Arts. Gateshead, 1996
Project: Temporary Contemporary. Visual Arts Year, U.K.
Curated by: Sune Nordgren
Cast iron, steel, glass, light
Cast iron plate: 5 x 500 cm ø
Fence: 180 x 150 cm ø
Height light: 2 km approximately
Walking near the Tyne and thinking of Blake, I thought a new bridge was needed, a vertical bridge to bring us towards another kind of landscape. That landscape is above our heads and underneath our feet and maybe because it is too close or too far it is unattainable.
To build a bridge, a bridge of light in Gateshead, near the Tyne and thinking of Blake.
Jaume Plensa
