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Eduardo Chillida

Spanish Basque sculptor of abstract monumental works.

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Eduardo Chillida

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Eduardo Chillida was a Basque sculptor born on 10 January 1924 in San Sebastián.[1][2] He began his career as a goalkeeper for Real Sociedad before a serious knee injury ended his football prospects.[1][2]

Life and work

In 1950 Chillida married Pilar Belzunce and eventually returned to the San Sebastián area.[3][4] After returning to the Basque Country in 1951, he began working in forged iron with a local blacksmith.[5] Chillida produced the four doors for the basilica of Arantzazu in 1954.[6][2] In the early 1980s he and his wife bought a sixteenth-century Basque farmhouse to establish a permanent display space for his work.[7][4]

Between 1943 and 1946, Chillida pursued architectural studies at the University of Madrid, but he did not finish that course of study.[3] In 1947 he left architecture behind to pursue art, and the following year relocated to Paris.[3] From 1948 to 1950 his residence was Paris, and then from 1950 until 1955 he lived in Villaines-sous-Bois.[3] The series Anvil of Dreams occupied Chillida from 1954 through 1966, marking his initial use of wood as a material.[8]

Alabaster became a medium for his sculpture starting in 1965.[8] That museum, Chillida Leku, an outdoor exhibition space, began welcoming visitors in the 1990s.[7][4]

What the cited sources add

The Guardian obituary notes that Chillida died following a stroke at age 78 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.[2] The same source states that his first sculptures in plaster and clay were of human forms, including torsos and busts.[2] According to the obituary, Chillida met philosopher Martin Heidegger at the 1968 Venice Biennale and later illustrated Heidegger's Die Kunst Und Der Raum.[2] The same article quotes Chillida describing the project as "a monument to tolerance and a work of art for the Canary people"[9]

A 2019 Guardian article states that Chillida Leku reopened in April 2019 with backing from the gallery Hauser & Wirth.[4] The Art Newspaper reports that Chillida's estate has been represented by Hauser & Wirth since 2018.[10][11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Eduardo Chillida Fundación Telefónica, Madrid. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Adrian Searle (21 August 2002), Obituary: Eduardo Chillida The Guardian.. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  3. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Eduardo Chillida Tate, London.; Ken Johnson (22 August 2002) Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor on a Grand Scale, Dies at 78 The New York Times. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Agnish, "Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián", The Guardian, 17 April 2019. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  5. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Eduardo Chillida/Antoni Tàpies Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Adrian Searle (21 August 2002), Obituary: Eduardo Chillida The Guardian. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Agnish, "Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián", The Guardian, 17 April 2019; Museum Chillida-Leku (Hernani, Spain) (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Obituary: Eduardo Chillida The Daily Telegraph.; Eduardo Chillida Tate, London. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Giles Tremlett (20 January 2011), Spanish island allows massive cave to be bored into 'magic' mountain The Guardian.. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  10. Wikipedia, "Eduardo Chillida" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anna Brady (16 October 2019), In person: Pilar Ordovas on playing hard to get and striking out on her own The Art Newspaper. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Anna Brady (16 October 2019), In person: Pilar Ordovas on playing hard to get and striking out on her own The Art Newspaper.. facts only, no text reused. theartnewspaper.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Eduardo Chillida (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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