The starting point
- ojolo
- 4 hours ago
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What’s the point of the emptiness? I think it’s not essential, but fundamental. Its importance resembles the silence in music; shadows and light in the visual arts; the new paragraph in writing; the nothingness for this eye; and the emptiness itself for architecture, sculpture, and, if you aloud me the indulgence, relationships starting with the mirror.
As a species and a society, we usually run away from pain or danger; that’s our DNA action of self-preservation. From my point of view, we humans have learn to associate emptiness with some sort of cold feeling of abandonment, without realizing its importance.
Nonetheless, one of my more respected and insightful sculptors is the Spanish Vasco [the precision is necessary] Eduardo Chillida. He translated his powerful gaze into monumental pieces of emptiness. Yes, the oxymoron is definitive here. Chillida’s work belongs to the use of space, light, and shadow as his raw materials.
Chillida’s sculptures provoke and challenge the eye of the public. His artwork forces the viewer’s sight to see those magnificent monsters of concrete and iron in the inner space of the beholder. There, where all the roads have their starting points.
-Incluso, dibujando con el lápiz más fino un punto tiene dimensión- / -Even drawing with the sharpest pencil, a point has dimensión-
EDUARDO CHILLIDA
The starting point