Eduar­do CHILLIDA was born on Jan­u­ary 10, 1924 in San Sebastián, in the Basque Coun­try of Spain. After drop­ping out of archi­tec­tur­al stud­ies at the Cole­gio May­or de Cis­neros (1943 to 1946), he attend­ed the pri­vate art acad­e­my Cir­cu­lo de Bel­las Artes in Madrid. From 1949 Chill­i­da lived and worked in Paris. He makes fig­u­ra­tive sculp­tures and par­tic­i­pates in the Salon de Mai. In 1950 the sculp­tor returned to Spain and in 1957 set­tled in Vil­la Paz in San Sebastián. In 1971 Chill­i­da fol­lowed a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor­ship at the Car­pen­ter Cen­ter for the Visu­al Arts, Haward Uni­ver­si­ty, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts. From 1954 Chill­i­da took part in exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing the doc­u­men­ta in Kas­sel (1959 to 1977) and the Venice Bien­nale (1958 and 1990). Since his first abstract iron sculp­tures, the artist was con­cerned with the “sense of space”. Using a vari­ety of mate­ri­als, wood, steel, alabaster, gran­ite, clay, and the prints he cre­at­ed, espe­cial­ly in the 1960s and 1970s, he traced the bound­aries of space. Char­ac­ter­is­tic of his plas­tic works of art is the homo­ge­neous mate­ri­al­i­ty and the sub­di­vi­sion into fig­ure forms. In 1984, his fam­i­ly estab­lished the Chill­i­da Foun­da­tion. In 2000, the Museo Chill­i­da-Leku was opened in Her­nani. The artist’s works are rep­re­sent­ed in pub­lic and pri­vate col­lec­tions and muse­ums, includ­ing the Museo Nacional Cen­tro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Nation­al­ga­lerie, Berlin, Spren­gel Muse­um, Hanover, Städtis­ches Muse­um Abteiberg, Mönchenglad­bach, Gal­le­ria Nazionale d’Arte Mod­er­na, Rome, Tate Britain, Lon­don, Kun­st­mu­se­um Basel, Met­ro­pol­i­tain Muse­um, New York, Carnegie Insti­tute, Pitts­burgh, Mae­da Envi­ron­men­tal Art, Tokyo. Chill­i­da is one of the most famous sculp­tors and graph­ic artists of the 20th cen­tu­ry. Eduar­do Chill­i­da dies in San Sebastián on August 19, 2002.

Eduar­do CHILLIDA was born on Jan­u­ary 10, 1924 in San Sebastián, in the Basque Coun­try of Spain. After drop­ping out of archi­tec­tur­al stud­ies at the Cole­gio May­or de Cis­neros (1943 to 1946), he attend­ed the pri­vate art acad­e­my Cir­cu­lo de Bel­las Artes in Madrid. From 1949 Chill­i­da lived and worked in Paris. He makes fig­u­ra­tive sculp­tures and par­tic­i­pates in the Salon de Mai. In 1950 the sculp­tor returned to Spain and in 1957 set­tled in Vil­la Paz in San Sebastián. In 1971 Chill­i­da fol­lowed a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor­ship at the Car­pen­ter Cen­ter for the Visu­al Arts, Haward Uni­ver­si­ty, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts. From 1954 Chill­i­da took part in exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing the doc­u­men­ta in Kas­sel (1959 to 1977) and the Venice Bien­nale (1958 and 1990). Since his first abstract iron sculp­tures, the artist was con­cerned with the “sense of space”. Using a vari­ety of mate­ri­als, wood, steel, alabaster, gran­ite, clay, and the prints he cre­at­ed, espe­cial­ly in the 1960s and 1970s, he traced the bound­aries of space. Char­ac­ter­is­tic of his plas­tic works of art is the homo­ge­neous mate­ri­al­i­ty and the sub­di­vi­sion into fig­ure forms. In 1984, his fam­i­ly estab­lished the Chill­i­da Foun­da­tion. In 2000, the Museo Chill­i­da-Leku was opened in Her­nani. The artist’s works are rep­re­sent­ed in pub­lic and pri­vate col­lec­tions and muse­ums, includ­ing the Museo Nacional Cen­tro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Nation­al­ga­lerie, Berlin, Spren­gel Muse­um, Hanover, Städtis­ches Muse­um Abteiberg, Mönchenglad­bach, Gal­le­ria Nazionale d’Arte Mod­er­na, Rome, Tate Britain, Lon­don, Kun­st­mu­se­um Basel, Met­ro­pol­i­tain Muse­um, New York, Carnegie Insti­tute, Pitts­burgh, Mae­da Envi­ron­men­tal Art, Tokyo. Chill­i­da is one of the most famous sculp­tors and graph­ic artists of the 20th cen­tu­ry. Eduar­do Chill­i­da dies in San Sebastián on August 19, 2002.


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