The main park of the La Majdalana de Santander Palace received this Thursday to sculpt the “Council” to the seventh “in Eduardo Chelida, which will remain the entire summer installed next to the symbolic building through Cooperation between Mindez Beliio International University (Uimp) and the Foundation From the artist Dunostarra.
The sculpture, created by Chillida in 1996 and belongs to a series of Nine pieces in which the artist searches for the relationship between sculpture and spaceIt is 1.70 meters long and manufactured by a four -cm thick.
Uimp courses
This work from Donostiarra will head the Magdalena Palace Palace throughout the summer in the framework of the Summer UEMP cycles and was installed this Thursday in the face of Opening training activities for this academic institutionWhich begins next Monday, June 16.
Specifically, on that first day of the courses, Uimp A organized Cultural work on the work of Eduardo ShelidaWhich will be held from 7:00 pm. In the royal hall at the Magdalena Palace. The title will be titled, framed in the “Context” conference course 100 years from Eduardo Shelida “ The interventions of the president of the Eduardo Chillida-Pilar Belzunce Foundation, Luis Chillida, Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Santander (MAS), Salvador Carrero.
Chillida
Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián, 1924-2002) is a The main shape of the twentieth century sculpting. His work, from the great international projection, has its roots in architecture, philosophical thinking and its origins in the Basque.
After leaving behind drawing and sculptures in Paris, he returned to his homeland, where he found in El Hier The perfect means of developing a carved language Deep character.
Seventh space advice
The Council belongs to the seventh space (1996) to a series of nine pieces in which the artist searches the relationship between sculpture and space. This piece, One of the most huge in the seriesIt is made of 4 centimeters of cortical steel, a substance that acquires the natural zenjar over time.
It is presented as Open the voice that invites you to travelThe visitor is allowed to enter the interior to try the space and matter, whether from trying the inner space of the sculpture and from his relationship with an external environment, broader and envelope. It consists of vertical panels, a shelter or threshold, where the body and appearance are directed towards a spatial experiment in a continuous dialogue between inside and outside.
In this article, as in many of his general works, Chillida suggests a place, not an object. Thus, it becomes a meeting point between the body, work and space; An open reflection on the borders between material and emptiness, internal and external, sculpture and architecture.
