Eduardo Chillida

EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002).
Untitled.1975.
Silkscreen, P.A. copy.
Signed in plate, justified by hand.
Measurements: 13 x 13 cm.

Screenprint representative of the abstract and essential language of Eduardo Chillida, made in 1975, a period of full creative maturity of the artist. The work is articulated from forceful black shapes, with organic and angular contours, arranged on a white background with a precise balance between mass and emptiness.

The composition responds to one of Chillida's central concerns: the relationship between form and space, where emptiness acquires a structural value equivalent to that of matter. The figures seem to fit together and dialogue with each other, generating internal tensions and a sensation of contained rhythm, characteristic of his graphic and sculptural work.

The absence of a title reinforces the artist's desire to avoid literal interpretation, inviting a direct perceptual experience. The forms refer to primary, almost architectural structures, in which one can perceive the influence of philosophical thought and the Basque constructive tradition, constant elements in his career.

Throughout his life, Chillida received numerous prizes and awards, including the Carnegie Prize, the Rembrandt Prize, the Wolf Foundation for the Arts and the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts. He was also an academician of San Fernando, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary of the Royal Academy of Arts of London and of the Imperial Order of Japan, and was awarded the Grand Cross for Humanitarian Merit by the Institution of the same name in Barcelona. In addition to his Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, he is represented in museums and collections around the world, such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.