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Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, person over you Eduardo Txillida Juantegi discern Basque, (10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002) was a Spanish European sculptor noted for his monumental metaphysical works.
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Chillida's sculptures concentrated think the mortal
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1960
Receives Kandinsky Prize
1961
Creates wooden sculpture, Abesti gogorra I [Rough Song I]
1963
Travels to Greece, becomes interested in light
1965
Creates first alabaster sculpture,
Homenaje a Kandinsky [Homage to Kandinsky]
1966
Has a retrospective at the Museum of Fine arts, Houston
1968
Has an installation of the sculpture Alrededor del vacío V [Around the Void V] outside The World Bank in Washington, D.C.
1971
Visiting Professor at Harvard University
1972
Creates concrete sculpture, Lugar de encuentros III [Meeting Place III], installed in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid
1973
Begins working with chamotte clay. First of the Lurrak [Earths] pieces
1977
Has an installation of the Peine del viento XV
[Comb of the Wind XV] in San Sebastián
1980
Has a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York
1984
Purchases the Zabalaga country house in Hernani
1985
Creates first Gravitations on paper
1990
Has an installation of the Elogio del horizonte
[Praise of the Horizon] in Gijón
1991
Awarded Praemium Imperiale in Japan
1994
Made honorary member of the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid
1998
Has a retrospective at the Reina Sofía National
Art Center Museum in Madrid
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Eduardo Chillida “Reference for metal and vacuum in sculpture”
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui (Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, 1924 – San Sebastian, 2002) was a Basque sculptor known for his works in iron and concrete, an outstanding continuator of Julio Gonzalez and Pablo Picasso’s tradition.
He was the third child of Pedro Chillida and his wife, the soprano Carmen Juantegui. He was a goalkeeper for Real Sociedad football team but he had to give it up due to an injury. At the age of nineteen he started studying architecture at the University of Madrid, which he abandoned to get exclusively involved in sculpture and drawing in the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid.
His activity started around 1948, when he moved to Paris. There he made friends with Pablo Palazuelo.
In 1950 he returned to San Sebastian, married Pilar Belzunce and went to live in Villaines-sous-Bois, a French town in the area of the Ile-de-France, department of Val-d’Oise. When the first of his children was born, he returned to San Sebastian and started to work at a metal workshop in Hernani, where iron marked a turning point in his career. At the suggestion of his friend Pablo Palazuelo he had his first solo exhibition at Clan Gallery in Madrid in 1954. In 1964 he was awarded the Carnegie Prize for Scu