Eduardo Chillida

EDUARDO CHILLIDA (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002).
"Goiti".1983
Woodcut on paper, copy 10/50.
Signed and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 28 x 15 cm.(paper); 43 x 15 cm.(frame).

In Goiti -a Basque term that can be translated as "above" or "elevation"- Eduardo Chillida condenses in an intimate format one of the essential constants of his plastic language: the relationship between form, space and limit.

The composition is reduced to a single black sign, compact and emphatic, printed in the center of the paper. The small form, with its angular contours and almost architectural structure, seems to expand outward from its core, as if it were contained within an inner tension.

The woodcut, a direct and essential technique, reinforces this formal concentration. The density of the black and the slightly irregular texture of the inking underline the materiality of the process, while the natural-edged paper brings a tactile and organic dimension.

Throughout his life, Chillida received numerous awards, including the Carnegie Prize, the Rembrandt Prize, the Wolf Foundation of the Arts Award and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. He was 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.

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 or the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.