Eduardo Chillida. Echoes Eduardo Chillida. Echoes is a survey show conceived especially for the reopening of Chillida Leku. Curated by Ignacio Chillida and the museum’s research team, the exhibition features over 90 works, tracing the artist’s output from the late forties, a time when he engaged with figuration, until 2000, embracing his discovery of iron and following the development of his highly personal language. Eduardo Chillida. Echoes features works in iron, granite, alabaster, plaster and paper, and includes important series such as Gravitaciones (sculptures in paper lending particular importance to relief and void) as well as Lurras and Óxidos (works in chamotte clay). Besides works from the Estate of Eduardo Chillida, many pieces in this opening exhibition, some of which have rarely been seen before, are on loan from museums, institutions and private collections. This is the case, for instance, of major iron sculptures such as Deseoso (Wishful) (1954, Fundación La Caixa) and Del plano oscuro (1956, Fundación ICO, on deposit at Museo Reina Sofía), as well as several exceptional works like Hierros de temblor (Trembling Irons) (1957); Yunque de sueños VII (Anvil of Dreams) (1959) and Buscando la luz III (Searching for Light III) (1997). In order to better contextualize the works, the exhibition is expanded with photos, original manuscripts, letters and catalogues from the artist’s early years, carefully selected from the Eduardo Chillida Archive, which is also conserved at the museum. Eduardo Chillida. Ecos. Exhibition view Photo: Gonzalo Machado Barrio Jauregi 66 +34 943 335 963 20120 Hernani, Gipuzkoa
[email protected] www.museochillidaleku.com Oyarak I (Echoes I) (1954).