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Eduardo Chillida
About the artist...
Chillida was born in 1924 in Basque’s San Sebastián.
After a knee injury ruined his chance of playing professional football,
he began to study architecture at the University of Madrid and then
went on to study art in Paris. He quickly became one of Europe’s
foremost sculptors and returned to Spain where he married Pilar
Belzunce, with whom he had eight children. Nicknamed the “Man
of Iron”, Chillida is best known for monumental sculptures
in iron, steel, wood and granite. Politically active, Chillida was
a rebel Democrat who opposed Franco’s reign and promoted peace
in the Basque region. Chillida died in his native Basque in 2002.
Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
Retrospective, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield |
| 2003 |
Fifty Years of Drawing, Annely Juda Fine Art, London |
| 1999 |
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany |
| 1990 |
Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1981 |
Museum of Fine Arts Bilbao, Spain |
| 1961 |
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas |
| 1954 |
Clan Gallery, Madrid |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2003 |
How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London |
| 1995 |
Santelmo Museum, San Sebastián, Spain |
| 1993 |
Black and White, Gallery Lelong, New York |
| 1980 |
Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| 1979 |
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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