Eduardo Chillida. Work on paper.
2014/10/03-2014/11/15
Galeria Joan Gaspar Barcelona
The Galeria Joan Gaspar (Barcelona) has a pleasure to present
an exhibition "Eduardo Chillida. Work on paper".
Opening: Friday, October 3, at 7:00 pm.
Eduardo Chillida is, without doubt, one of the most important Spanish artists and one of the sculptors who had a significant impact on the national art school. During his long and productive career Chillida worked and experimented with different materials creating recognizable forms.
Nevertheless, it would be unfair to demarcate Chillida’s art activity only with sculpture, because his graphic work occupies not less important place in his biography and always was in accordance with his sculptural work. The drawing was his first “praxis” but it was later, in 50’s, when he started to be interested in the engraving. Although his favourite media was an etching, Chillida also worked with xylography, lithography, dry point and screen printing, playing with only two colours: black and white.
So, you can observe how Chillida’s graphic work developed during the years, converging to the two-dimensionality and creating the sensation of the relief based on the plane surface. We invite you to the exhibition the 3d of October at the Galeria Joan Gaspar (Barcelona).
At the exhibition you can also enjoy original works from the artist made on paper. One of them is a collage. In this media Chillida applied different colours, sometimes creating the sensation of the oxidized metal (it remind us his sculptures).
To conclude, we are showing one beautiful original work, made with ink on paper and dedicated to the artist’s friend, Peter Belew.
