Affiche No. 87

 

Eduardo Chillida

  1924 - 2002 (biography)

1964  

lithograph 

24 9/16 x 19 13/16" image and paper size 

pencil, lower right 

15 of 125  

pencil editioned 

Van der Koelen 64002 

heavy cream wove 

published 

artist and Maeght Galerie 

TEB110 

SOLD

By 1964 Basque artist Eduardo Chillida had stripped his artwork of outright representation in order to focus on the more abstract theory of "things as places", a concept much discussed in the early 1960s with his friend, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. At the time that he created this lithograph, Chillida's two dimensional art was as sculptural as his concrete and iron works, and reflected his ideas on social structures and our physical place in the landscape. Here, a simple series of lines read like a topographical map of tributaries meandering across a valley. Alternatively, it could appear like the tracing of a dancer in slow motion, alone in a pale landscape. The image is starkly graceful, offering the viewer a story without words meant to be sensed rather than seen. This image would be used by Galerie Maeght's to advertise Chillida's exhibition that same year.