EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002). "Aromas", 2000.

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  EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002). "Aromas", 2000. Book with 5 etchings, 3 woodcuts, 2 serigraphs on thick Velin paper, copy 60/120. Ed. Edouard Weiss, Paris. Signed and justified by hand. Case designed by the artist. Measurements: 90 x 64 cm. (paper); 43 x 59 cm. (stain). ""Guided by a scent"", the final phrase of the book by Chillida, summarizes the spirit of the artist when working, letting himself be guided by the materials, by their essence. As the sculptor himself explained: ""The form, at the beginning, is almost like an undefined aroma that imposes itself as it becomes more precise. This pre-knowledge or aroma is my guide in the unknown, in what is desired and what is necessary"". This is a book of engravings by Eduardo Chillida made up of five etchings, three woodcuts, two serigraphs with relief, together with 38 pages of text that, through graphic works, poems, reflections and philosophical quotations, both by the artist himself and by various thinkers, brings us closer to the thought and work of the Basque artist through the keys that have marked his career: time, space, music, freedom, matter, light and the sea. Published on the occasion of the artist's 76th birthday. In ""Aromas"" Chillida the plastic artist and Chillida the writer join hands to discover the poet, the philosopher and the deep thinker. The edition consists of 160 series of graphics with the numbering; 1-120; I-IX (suite); I-IX (suite in gray Eskulan); H. C. 1-10; E. A. 1-12. Chillida began drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and little by little his interest in sculpture grew. It was during his years in Paris when he made his first plaster sculptures, impressed by the archaic Greek sculpture in the Louvre. In the French capital he held his first sculpture exhibition in 1950. In 1951 he returned definitively to San Sebastian, and made his first work in iron, the material with which he would work for the rest of his life. Throughout his life, Chillida received numerous prizes and awards, including the Carnegie Prize, the Rembrandt Prize, the Wolf Foundation of 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."
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