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Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in
Basque
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(10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002), was a Spanish
Basque
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sculptor
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notable for his monumental
abstract works.
Early life and career
Born in
San Sebastián
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(Donostia) to Pedro Chillida and the soprano Carmen Juantegui on 10 January 1924. Eduardo Chillida grew up near hotel ''Biarritz'', which was owned by his grandparents.
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Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. Chillida had been the goalkeeper for
Real Sociedad
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, San Sebastián's
La Liga
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football team, where his knee was so seriously injured that he had five surgeries, ending a promising football career. He then studied architecture at the
University of Madrid from 1943 to 1946. In 1947 he abandoned architecture for art, and the next year he moved to Paris, where he set up his first studio and began working in plaster and clay. He never finished his degree and instead began to take private art lessons. He lived in Paris from 1948 to 50 and at
Villaines-sous-Bois (Seine-et-Oise) from 1950 to 1955.
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Tate
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, London. In 1950 Chillida married Pilar Belzunce and later returned to the San Sebastián area, first to the nearby village of Hernani and in 1959 to the city of his birth, where he remained.
[Ken Johnson (22 August 2002]
Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78
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''.
He died at his home near San Sebastián at the age of 78.
Work
Chillida's sculptures concentrated on the human form (mostly torsos and
bust
Bust commonly refers to:
* A woman's breasts
* Bust (sculpture), of head and shoulders
* An arrest
Bust may also refer to:
Places
* Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in France
*Lashkargah, Afghanistan, known as Bust historically
Media
* ''Bust'' (magazin ...
s); his later works tended to be more massive and more abstract, and included many monumental public works.
Adrian Searle
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Life and career
Searle studied at the St ...
(21 August 2002)
Obituary: Eduardo Chillida
''The Guardian
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''. Chillida himself tended to reject the label of "abstract", preferring instead to call himself a "realist sculptor". Upon returning to the Basque Country in 1951, Chillida soon abandoned the plaster he used in his Paris works – a medium suited to his study of archaic figurative works in the
Louvre
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. Living near Hernani, he began to work in forged iron with the help of the local blacksmith, and soon set up a forge in his studio. From 1954 until 1966, Chillida worked on a series entitled ''Anvil of Dreams'', in which he used wood for the first time as a base from which the metal forms rise up in explosive rhythmic curves.
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''The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
''. He began to make sculpture in alabaster 1965.
Rather than turn over a
maquette
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of a sculpture to fabricators, as many modern artists do, Chillida worked closely with the men in the foundry. He then usually added an alloy that caused the metal to take on a brilliant rust color as it oxidizes.
[Hilliard Harper (25 October 1986)]
Chillida's Sculptures Reach Peak
''Los Angeles Times
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''.
From quite early on, Chillida's sculpture found public recognition, and, in 1954, he produced the four doors for the basilica of
Arantzazu
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, where works by other leading Basque sculptors – Jorge Oteiza, Agustin Ibarrola and Nestor Basterretxea – were also being installed. The following year, he carved a stone monument to the discoverer of penicillin,
Sir Alexander Fleming
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, for a park in San Sebastián (it subsequently disappeared, but a new version has been installed on the promenade at San Sebastián bay).
By the early 1970s, his steel sculptures had been installed in front of the
Unesco
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headquarters in Paris, the
ThyssenKrupp
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building in Düsseldorf, and in a courtyard at the
World Bank
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offices in Washington
At their best his works, although massive and monumental, suggest movement and tension. For example, the largest of his works in the United States, ''De Musica'' is an 81-ton steel sculpture featuring two pillars with arms that reach out but do not touch. Much of Chillida's work is inspired by his Basque upbringing, and many of his sculptures' titles are in the Basque language
Euskera. His steel sculpture ''De Música III'' was exhibited at the
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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in the UK, as part of a retrospective of Chillida's work.
Chillida's cast iron sculpture ''
Topos V
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Purchased by Barcelona municipality when it was exhibited at Joan Miró Foundation in 1986, ...
'' has been displayed in
Plaça del Rei
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, Barcelona, since 1986.
Chillida also conceived a distinguished oeuvre of
etching
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s,
lithograph
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s and
woodcut
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s since 1959, including illustrations for
Jorge Guillen
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's ''Mas Alla'' (1973) and various other books.
''Monument to Tolerance'', Fuerteventura
According to Chillida's plans for a ''Monument of Tolerance'', an artificial cave is to be bored into the mountain. The huge cubic cave, measuring 40 metres (131 ft) along each side, is to be dug from inside a mountain that has long been revered by the inhabitants of the dusty, barren island to the south of
Lanzarote
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. About 64,000 cubic metres of rock will be taken away from the mountain, which rises out of an arid landscape in the north of the island, to create what Chillida called his 'monument to tolerance'. Chillida's original idea was for visitors to experience the immensity of the space.
[Giles Tremlett (20 January 2011)]
Spanish island allows massive cave to be bored into 'magic' mountain
''The Guardian''.
The project has been in development since 1994, eight years before Chillida's death.
[Laurie Rojas (10 October 2013)]
Chillida's Canary Islands cave sculpture still on hold
''The Art Newspaper
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''. In 2011 local authorities decided to go ahead with a project by Chillida inside
Mount Tindaya on
Fuerteventura
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despite concerns from environmentalists.
As of 2013, local officials are continuing to seek €75 million in private funding.
Dialogue with Heidegger
In the early 1960s Eduardo Chillida engaged into a dialog with the German philosopher
Martin Heidegger
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. When the two men met, they discovered that from different angles, they were "working with space" in the same way. Heidegger wrote: "We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place," and that sculpture is thereby "...the embodiment of places." Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein.
Chillida has been quoted as saying: "My whole Work is a journey of discovery in Space. Space is the liveliest of all, the one that surrounds us. ...I do not believe so much in experience. I think it is conservative. I believe in perception, which is something else. It is riskier and more progressive. There is something that still wants to progress and grow. Also, this is what I think makes you perceive, and perceiving directly acts upon the present, but with one foot firmly planted in the future. Experience, on the other hand, does the contrary: you are in the present, but with one foot in the past. In other words, I prefer the position of perception. All of my work is the progeny of the question. I am a specialist in asking questions, some without answers."
Other philosophers who have written respectfully about Chillida and his works include
Gaston Bachelard
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and
Octavio Paz
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.
Elogio_chillida_gijon.jpg, ''Elogio del Horizonte (Eulogy to the Horizon)'', concrete (1989), Gijón
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, Spain
Muenster;RathausToleranzdDialog9425.jpg, ''Toleranz durch Dialog'', Münster
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, Germany
Elpeine.jpg, ''Haizearen orrazia'' San Sebastián
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, Spain
Claw sculpture at Parc de la Creuta del Coll.jpg, ''Elogi de l'aigua'', Barcelona
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, Spain
Chillida monumento vor thyssen düsseldorf.jpg, ''Monumento'' (1971), Thyssen-Hochhaus, Düsseldorf
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, Germany
Exhibitions
Chillida exhibited his early work in 1949 in the Salon de Mai at the
Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, and the next year took part in "Les Mains Eblouies", a show of postwar art at the Galerie Maeght.
After his first solo exhibition at the Clan Gallery in Madrid in 1954, Chillida exhibited his work in more than 100 one-man shows. He also participated in many international exhibitions, including the
Venice Biennale
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(1958, 1988 and 1990); the
Pittsburgh International, where he received the Carnegie Prize for sculpture in 1964 and, in 1978, shared the
Andrew W. Mellon Prize with
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...
; and
Documenta
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The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultura ...
II, IV and VI.
His first comprehensive retrospective in the United States was mounted by the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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, in 1966. Major retrospectives of Chillida's graphic and sculptural work have since been mounted by the
National Gallery
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in Washington, D.C. (1979),
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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in New York (1980), Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián (1992); and the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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in Madrid (1999) and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1999).
Major public works
Major public works by Chillida are in Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt and Dallas. A large body of his work can be seen in
San Sebastián
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. One, ''Haizeen orrazia'' (''
The Comb of the Wind
''The Comb of the Wind'' ( eu, Haizearen orrazia XV, es, Peine del Viento XV) is a collection of three sculptures by Eduardo Chillida arranged as an architectural work by the Basque architect Luis Peña Ganchegui. For both, this is one of their ...
'') a collaboration with
Luis Peña Ganchegui
Luis Peña Ganchegui (Oñati, Guipúzcoa, 29 March 1926 - San Sebastián, 2 April 2009) was a Spanish architect. He is considered one of the first to introduce contemporary architecture to Spain.
Biography
He studied architecture at the Super ...
, is installed on rocks rising from the Cantabrian Sea at ''La Concha'' bay in Sebastián. Perhaps his best-known work in the United States is in front of the
I.M. Pei
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-designed
Meyerson Symphony Center
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in Dallas. The work features two pillars with branches that reach out but do not touch. In Washington, a Chillida sculpture is inside the
World Bank
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headquarters. A sculpture by Chillida also sits outside Beverly Hills City Hall. In 1986, he installed ''House of Goethe,'' a large piece that is a tribute to the German poet and dramatist,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as trea ...
, in the city of Frankfurt.
His monument ''Diálogo-Tolerancia (Dialogue-Tolerance)'' was installed in Münster in 1993 to celebrate the
Peace of Westfalia. Chillida's sculpture ''Berlin'' (2000) for the
Federal Chancellery (Berlin)
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is interpreted as a symbol of
German reunification
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: two crossing hands create a common – in a sense spiritual – place.
Collections
Chillida's sculptures have been collected by major museums, including the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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in New York; the
Tate Britain
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in London; the
Kunsthalle Basel
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in Switzerland; and the
Neue Nationalgalerie
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in Berlin. In 1986 the Chillida collection of the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
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in Madrid was inaugurated; Chillida designed the museum's logo.
Chillida Leku
In the early 1980s Chillida and his wife bought a sixteenth century Basque farmhouse and surrounding land at
Hernani near San Sebastián to establish a permanent place to display his work in a natural environment. This opened in the 1990s as ''Chillida Leku'', an open-air museum where visitors could wander among the sculptures. The museum closed by 2011 but reopened in 2019 with the backing of
Hauser & Wirth
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History
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by co-president Marc Payot. In 2020, Ewan Venters was ap ...
, a Swiss modern art gallery. ''Leku'' means 'place' in
Basque
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* Basque language, their language
Places
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.
Honours and awards
In 2002,
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, the capital of the Basque country, awarded its gold medal, the city's highest honor, posthumously to Chillida and the architect
Luis Peña Ganchegui
Luis Peña Ganchegui (Oñati, Guipúzcoa, 29 March 1926 - San Sebastián, 2 April 2009) was a Spanish architect. He is considered one of the first to introduce contemporary architecture to Spain.
Biography
He studied architecture at the Super ...
, for building a square that has come to symbolize Basque re-emergence following Spain's return to democracy. Other honours include:
*(1998) Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awar
International Sculpture Center*(1991) Recipient of the
Praemium Imperiale
Prince Takamatsu
The Praemium Imperiale ( ja, 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu-no-miya Denka Kinen Sekai Bunka-shō, World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu) is an international art prize inaugura ...
in Sculpture
*(1987) Recipient of the
Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes
*(1985) Recipient of the
Wolf Prize
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in Sculpture
*(1983) Elected an honorary academician by the Royal Academy
*(1998) Elected an honorary Fellow of the
Royal Society of Sculptors
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Art market
Since 2018, Chillida's estate has been represented by Hauser & Wirth. It previously worked with
Pilar Ordovas.
In 2006, Chillida's classic 1961 sculpture, ''Rumor de Limites'', more than doubled estimates to sell to a collector from the Iberian Peninsula for a record £2 million in London. His
corten
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steel sculpture ''Buscando La Luz IV (Looking for the Light IV)'' (2001) was sold for 4.1 million pounds at
Christie's
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London in 2013.
[Scott Reyburn (26 June 2013)]
Basquiat Sells for $29 Million, Contemporary Sales Start
''The Daily Telegraph''.
References
Further reading
*Martin van der Koelen: ''Eduardo Chillida · OPUS P.I; Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1959–1972.'' Chorus, Mainz 1999, .
*Martin van der Koelen: ''Eduardo Chillida · OPUS P.II; Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1973–1985.'' Chorus, Mainz 1997, .
*Martin van der Koelen: ''Eduardo Chillida · OPUS P.III; Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1986–1996.'' Chorus, Mainz 1996, .
*Martin van der Koelen: ''Eduardo Chillida · OPUS P.IV; Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1966–2001.'' Chorus, Mainz 2005, .
* Beate Reifenscheid und Dorothea van der Koelen; Arte in Movimento – Kunst in Bewegung, Dokumente unserer Zeit XXXIV; Chorus-Verlag; Mainz 2011;
External links
Museum Chillida-Leku(Hernani, Spain)
Galerie Lelong, ParisSpanish Sculptor Eduardo Chillida, Wall Street Journal October 2015
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