In the Zabalaga country house estate located in Hernani (Guipúzcoa), near San Sebastián, Chillida Leku has inaugurated the first exhibition of its program of artists other than Chillida. On view through 10 January 2022, it presents small and large wo

Kosme de Barañano   Eight years after a mix of financial and management problems forced it to close down, the artistic sanctuary of Eduardo Chillida in Hernani reopens.

Chillida Leku

The legacy of an artist frequently becomes a source of conflict. Sometimes because the wishes of the deceased do not coincide with those of the inheritors; other times because the legatees quarrel for possession of artworks or for the right to decide

Outside Hernani, the museum founded by the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida reopens to the public on 17 April, with its outdoor scuptures and the exhibition space inside the Zabalaga house.

The multitude exists only because the void does, and the impact of its presence in architectural frames comes precisely from the contrast with empty space. Tienanmen Square on two consecutive First of May – the second one of them coinciding with the

Guillermo Solana   La primera vocación de Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián, 1924-2002) fue la arquitectura. En 1943, cuando aún no había cumplido los veinte años, el joven Eduardo comenzó a prepararse para ingresar en la carrera de arquitecto. Cuatro años más tarde, en

Miren Jaio   La primera imagen mediática que teníamos de ‘Chillida-leku’ procedía del día de la inauguración: un fondo de laderas de césped inglés salpicadas de esculturas de hierro, piedra labrada del siglo XVI y frondosos árboles autóctonos, con un primer plano

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The accidents on the sites of works by Rafael Moneo and Eduardo Chillida make us reflect on the fragility of construction and the mortality of art.

(1924-2002) Eduardo Chillida wanted to be an architect, a vocation that he abandoned to become a painter first, and then a sculptor. But matter and form in Chillida’s sculptures revealed a spatial conception that was very close to his earliest vocati