Eduardo Chillida

Throughout his more than fifty years of creative career, Eduardo Chillida explored concepts (opposites for some, complementary for him) such as emptiness and volume, light and shadow, limit and infinity. The material of which his works were made (even when he explored such diverse components as iron, stone, alabaster, steel or concrete) was not for him an end in itself, nor were those austere and arcane forms so defining of his work. Beyond matter and form, what Eduardo Chillida wanted to express through his works was an ethical, mystical and transcendental conception of existence.