Sculptor Eduardo Chillida and poet Carlos Aurtenetxe combined their creative discourses in a direct, shared dialogue between the space and the word. The result of this communication between the two Basque creators is a book featuring the poetry inspired by Aurtenetxe on observing Chillida’s works, and the drawings created by the artist from San Sebastian after having read the former’s poems. 

“I think what I found in that exhibition was above all a process which made sense, with an internal logic, which I saw as a symphony of forms in perfect order which were getting inside me Those forms by Chillida contained the same mystery that I was endeavouring to achieve with my own poetry and what happened to me was that I wasn’t experiencing a poem, but that I was coming up with a poem”

This creative process was defined by the author as “a state of watchfulness, the watchful conscience of the man who listens to what happens inside us”.

Cristina Torres. El Correo

“What Carlos has done reflects the meaning of what I have tried to do”. Eduardo Chillida. 1999. Photograph: Justy García
“art is something that happens to man before himself and before an implacable witness which is the work”. Eduardo Chillida
“Everything comes down to learning to ask, love, dare, look, see”. Eduardo Chillida
This exhibition comprises 25 original drawings made by Eduardo Chillida for La Casa del Olvido and is rounded off in the museum with several Lurras or terracottas and gravitations.