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Eduardo Chillida
Exhibition
Alicante
1-20 May
2008
 The exhibition can be visited up to May 20th and is a result of collaboration between the Museo Chillida in San Sebastián, the Obra Social de La Caixa and the Department of Culture at Alicante Town Hall. You can view the works in your own time or take a guided tour of this comprehensive collection, the fruit of the artist's most mature period. There are 11 monumental sculptures, 10 clay sculptures, 13 drawings, 5 collages, 18 gravitations (paper, ink and string) and a work in alabaster. The works use different formats, techniques and sizes and were created at a time when the artist had settled down in his home town of San Sebastián, where his works are now displayed in the open air, so that visitors can walk among them as if they were trees in the forest.  There is also a room at La Lonja with articles written about Chillida and a twenty minute video showing how he created his massive sculptures. Eduardo Chillida was born in San Sebastián in 1924. His first exhibition was in Paris in 1950, and from then on he received practically every award in existence: Venice's Bienal, the Kandinsky, the Wilhem Lehmbruck, the Príncipe de Asturias and Japan's Imperial Prize. His works can be seen in more than 20 museums throughout the world and retrospectives have been held in Houston Berlin, Madrid, Caracas, London and Palermo. His sculptures can be found all over the world, and architects, mathematicians and philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Emile Cioran have written about his work, as have poets such as Octavio Paz. http://www.alicante-ayto.es/cultura/home.html May
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