WALL – Jaume Plensa (2006)

Text as wound, silence as portrait.

This lithograph by Jaume Plensa, part of his Serie Anónimos, confronts the viewer with a haunting face, veiled by vertical streaks of ink and interrupted by a single printed word: WALL. The face, anonymous yet intimate, stares through the translucent paper as if trying to break through it. The word becomes a scar. The wall is not just external — it is within the image, across identity, and between language and seeing.

Printed in 2006 by Grifoll (Rubí, Barcelona) on vegetal paper, the piece draws from Plensa’s recurring themes: the permeability of the body, the weight of words, and the tension between transparency and enclosure. Originally distributed as a modest edition, it has since gained relevance not only for its visual impact but for how it distills Plensa’s monumental poetics into something fragile, almost weightless.

• Object: Lithograph
• Title: WALL
• Artist / Author: Jaume Plensa
• Date: 2006
• Technique / Printing Method: Offset lithography
• Medium / Materials: Ink on translucent vegetal paper
• Edition: Open edition (Serie Anónimos)
• Signed: Printed studio credit (JAUME PLENSA, 2006 / RODI, BARCELONA)
• Framing: Mounted on AlphaUWplus archival board
• Dimensions: 30 × 22 cm (image), 39 × 28 cm (mounted)
• Condition: Excellent
• Provenance: Darwin Collection