Eduardo Chillida: Writings
Eduardo Chillida: Writings

Author: Eduardo Chillida

Publisher: La Fabrica

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9788417769109

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The writings of Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), the entirety of which are collected in this volume, represent a revealing series of reflections on art and culture by the deeply influential Spanish sculptor, originally intended either for his private use or as public lectures. Edited in collaboration with Chillida's family, the texts include tributes to such figures as Bach, Joan Miró, Gabriel Aresti, Pío Baroja, Joan Brossa, María Zambrano and Mark Rothko, alongside discussions of the most difficult artistic questions that Chillida faced throughout his career, covered here in his acceptance speech for his induction to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Also discussed are metaphysical themes of perception, knowledge and religion, all of which informed his sculpture's approach to materiality as a kind of "realism," and made his body of work one of the most significant in abstract sculpture.

Chillida
Chillida

Author: Ordovas (Gallery)

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780993084331

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Chillida: Open-Air Sculptures
Chillida: Open-Air Sculptures

Author:

Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9788434313859

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A deluxe appreciation of Eduardo Chillida's public sculpture The outdoor public works of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), which are installed in various cities around the world, are protrayed here in stunning black-and-white photography, highlighting the intensity of his monumentally scaled abstract sculptures. In most cases, the architectural, urban or landscape setting determines many elements of the sculpture, and the artist strives to relate his design to the external environment in which it is placed. Here, both the details of each sculpture and its setting are featured. Chillida: Open-Air Sculptures begins with an essay by Italian art critic Giovanni Carandente that tracks Chilida's origins and inspirations, and also analyzes his civic and social themes. The volume also features a wide selection of the artist's own writings, included on inserted pages printed on an alternative paper stock. Chilida's lucid meditations on sculpture outline his intentions and desires, bringing us closer to the work itself.

Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo

Author: Georges Vantongerloo

Publisher: Actar

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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The catalogue is published on the occasion of the first individual exhibition of Georges Vantongerloo in Spain. The catalogue reveals the grounding of his work in the re-conceptualisation of pictorial and sculptural space that marked the abstract tendencies in art of the early 20th century. In the 1920s an important part of the Vantongerloos investigation was centred on colour as physical and perceptive phenomenon. Later, Vantongerloo will conceive his works according to strictly geometric rules, algebraic afterwards, to turn, thus, into the founder of the mathematical thought in art in our epoch. Genuine pioneer in the abstract sculpture field, the artist will continue, after 1945, proposing peculiar versions of that kind of sculpture, abandoning all the reference to a built geometry, and opening to a subjective approach to the universe of cosmology.

Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida

Author: Eduardo Chillida

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783777460314

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One of the most important sculptors of his generation, Basque artist Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) created monumental public sculptures that adorn buildings and public places worldwide. From Eulogy to the Horizon to Toleranceby Dialogue to the eighty-ton weathered steel work De Musica, which stands in front of the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Chillida's work has enjoyed wide critical acclaim for its ability to convey tensions in space. The first English-language book to consider Chillida's entire career, Eduardo Chillida begins with the artist's earliest work in Paris in the late 1940s and continues on to his return to the Basque Country, where he moved away from the clay and plaster studies of the human form that had been the focus of his work and began creating the large-scale metal sculptures for which he is best known. Among the most powerful of these metal works is Wind Combs, three segments of steel anchored to the rocks at the edge of the San Sebastian Bay. Later in his career, Chillida experimented with other media, including alabaster and wood. Also included in this book is a creative dialogue entered into in the 1960s with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who discovered an affinity with Chillida's exploration of space. Presented here are more than two hundred full-color images--selected by the artist's son, Ignacio Chillida--that form a rich and varied exploration of the entire scope of Chillida's career.

Heidegger Among the Sculptors
Heidegger Among the Sculptors

Author: Andrew Mitchell

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-07-16

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0804775761

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In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject—a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillida—he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. 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. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered, Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contribution to the philosophy of sculpture.