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Opening Eduardo Chillida
02April
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Opening Eduardo Chillida

Galería Cayón is pleased to present, in its new location in Blanca de Navarra 9, Madrid, Eduardo Chillida. The concave curve, the third solo exhibit of the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida (1924 – 2002, San Sebastian) sponsored by the gallery, following Ink Weighs in 2012 and Alabasters in 2010.

 



The Concave Curve originated in a personal experience that the co-director of the gallery, Adolfo Cayón, had in 1993, when he attended a conference given by Eduardo Chillida at the Reina Sofia Museum. At that event, the artist chatted with Jacques Dupin about their common friend, Joan Miró, and shared a fundamental discovery: while the convex curve—that is, the exterior of the curve—dominated Miró’s work, it was the concave curve that most characterized his own; in other words, the interior space, the space that yet remained.

 



Chillida’s discovery of the importance of the inner space generated by the concave curve is at the heart of this current exhibit. Its purpose is to bring to the fore what so often goes unnoticed: the nature of space, a space that reveals itself and acquires its own identity by way of the inner tension created by the material.

 



This remarkable exhibit counting with the collaboration of Chillida Museum, the Chillida Belzunce Family collection and other important european private collections, will inaugurate a new space of 6 m. high for Galeria Cayón. 

 

 

Opening

Eduardo Chillida. La curva cóncava

April 7, 2016 at 8 p.m

Blanca de Navarra,9
Madrid