Eduardo Chillida ( Spanish: Eduardo Chillida Juantegui ; January 10, 1924 , San Sebastian - August 19, 2002 , San Sebastian ) - Spanish sculptor , graphic artist, book artist.
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Biography
Eduardo Chillida was born and raised in the Basque Country . He grew up next to the Biarritz Hotel, which belonged to his grandparents. In his youth he was fond of football , was a goalkeeper, but after a serious knee injury he was forced to leave the sport. In 1943 - 1947 he studied architecture in Madrid . In 1948 - 1951 he lived in Paris , where he opened his first studio, studied archaic Greek plastic and began to engage in sculpture, met Brancusi , Giacometti , Gaston Bashlyar drew attention to his work. In 1950, Chillida married Pilar Belzuns. In 1959 he returned to San Sebastian, where he died in his house at the age of 78.
Creativity
Monumental abstract compositions, most often of iron, are combined with Chillida's graphics, newspaper collages, he illustrated books by Andre Freno , Choran and others.
Chillida Leku
In the early 1980s, in Hernani , near San Sebastian, Chillida and his wife bought a Basque farm with sixteenth-century buildings and surrounding land to create a permanent place to showcase their work in the natural environment. The open-air museum, where visitors could wander among the sculptures, was opened in the 1990s and was named "Chillida Leku" (in Basque, leku means "place"). Chillida's grave is also located in this park.
In 2011, the museum was closed, but reopened in 2019 with the support of Hauser & Wirth , the Swiss gallery of modern art [5] .
Recognition
Chillida is an honorary member of many European art academies, he represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 1958 , was awarded the Kandinsky Prize ( 1960 ), the Carnegie Prize ( 1964 ), the William Lembrook Prize and the North Rhine-Westphalia Land ( 1966 ), and the Wolf Prize (1984/5) , Prizes of the Prince of Asturias ( 1987 ) and the Imperial Prize of Japan ( 1991 ).
House in Chillida Leku. Hernani ( Gipuzkoa ).
In search of light ( Buscando la luz). Chillida Leku Museum
Praise the horizon. Gijon , Spain
The crest of the winds ( Peine vientos). San Sebastian, Spain
Notes
- β 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- β 1 2 Eduardo Chillida
- β 1 2 Eduardo Chillida - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- β 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11852044X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012β2016.
- β Agnish Ray. Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San SebastiΓ‘n (English) . The Guardian (17 Apr 2019).
Literature
- Volboudt P. Chillida. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1967.
- Esteban C. Chillida. Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1971.
- Paz O. Chillida. Barcelona: Maeght, 1980.
- BaraΓ±ano KMde. La obra artΓstica de Eduardo Chillida. Bilbao: Caja de Ahorros VizcaΓna, 1988.
- Ugarte L. Chillida, dudas y preguntas. Donostia: Erein, 1995.
- Dupin J. Circling around the Void (Eduardo Chillida) // Space in other words: French poets of the 20th century about the image in art. St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House , 2005, p. 243-253.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eduardo Chillida
- Official site
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- Works in museums around the world (English)
- Hibrikova Z. Eduardo Chillida: βThe House of Our Fatherβ (Basque) (Russian)
- Khibrikova Z. Chillida: Reflections on Matter (Basque) (Russian)