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...overlooking the beach - always to the right. At the end of La Concha is Playa de Ondarreta - a spacious, sandy beach - and 500 m further, at the foot of Monte Igeldo, the walk ends at the Peine del Viento (Wind's Comb) sculpture, a primordial structure designed by Eduardo Chillida. Time to take a well-deserved rest. Pull a bocadillo de jamón (a cured ham sandwich) out of your backpack and enjoy...
...DIED. EDUARDO CHILLIDA, 78, Basque abstract sculptor whose works, known for combining grace with colossal size, earned him the nickname "Man of Iron"; in San Sebastian, Spain. Giving up careers in soccer and architecture, Chillida moved to Paris in 1948 to set up his first studio, but returned to Spain two years later. His piece Comb of the Winds, featured on Spanish coins, became a symbol of the ongoing conflict in Chillida's native Basque region...
...make the week a banner occasion there was yet another unveiling: a massive 50-ton rose granite abstract sculpture placed in the garden of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Hewn out of three 100-ton blocks in a Spanish quarry by Eduardo Chillida, 42, the work was commissioned by Houston's Endowment Inc. To accompany the gift, Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled the first U.S. retrospective of Chillida, a man who. only began sculpting in 1948, was a Carnegie prize-winner in 1964, and today ranks as Spain's leading abstract sculptor. His granite giant...
Certainly Eduardo Chillida restrains the knotty nature of his wooden sculpture (see over page), and Antonio Saura's Brigitte Bardot is unsentimental. Says Saura, 36: "When I throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster." There is violence, a seething impasto in whorls of dark color, the suggestion of hot, bubbling blood. Like the peeling, crumbling walls of the Cuenca museum itself, Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey...
Once ignored, Tapies and fellow Prize winners Antonio Saura (Carnegie, Guggenheim) and Eduardo Chillida (Venice, Carnegie) are now treated as VIPs, as is Communist Pablo Picasso (although he has refused to set foot in Spain since the civil war). In 1960, an audience of high officials and intellectuals gave a standing ovation of 30 curtain calls to a play that bitterly attacked the regime...