Eduardo Chillida

The abstract metal sculptures by the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida often exhibit a strong connection with natural phenomena; his famous Wind Combs installed on the coast near San Sebastián are just one example. An allusion to nature emerges from the title of the present work, ‘From the horizon’. The artist was conscious of the elementary forces of fire and heat, which can combine to produce such a sculpture. In the present work, Chillida seems to be concerned with seizing and circumscribing space, and with the infinite multiplicity of views that characterize the nature of a three-dimensional sculpture in contrast to a two-dimensional picture. The work is essentially a sculpture about the nature of sculpture, and that, too, gives the work its great unity and expressive force.