The Importance of collections nowadays
Owing a quality comtemporary art heritage means owing not only a cultural good of inestimable value for the humanity, but also, without any doubt, a change value. An exhibition can be enjoyed for a long time and can be remembered in a more or less lively way, but unfortunately, once it ends the works are packed and they return to their original place whereas a collection has the perennial attribute of perennity, which is, thet apart from a violent destruction, it will be possible to enjoy forever. And not only that: a collection can be profited as a cultural good, by lending it to museums and institutions all over the world.

Victoria Combalía 

The Telefonica’s art collection shows an important sample of the vast creative work of the Basque sculptor, where the visitor can find works in three different supports: iron, stone (alabaster and stoneware) and paper. Through them the artist undertakes from the form of creation emanating from a subtle line that comes alive (figures and hands) up to the substance in its deepest presence Mesa de Omar Khayyan III y IV (Omar Khayyan’s Table III and IV) or even the bright crystallization of a wave’s foam Homenaje a la Mar III (Homage to the sea III) all this within the same aesthetic paradigm of space and mass, of gravity and levitation.

Most of the works belong to the fruitful creative period of Chillida’s 80’s with the exquisite exception of the sculpture Yunque de Sueños XIII (The Anvil of Dreams XIII) made in 1962, after the artist’s return to his homeland from France, where his talent had already started to be known.

The Homenaje a Juan Gris (Homage to Juan Gris), with a greeting-poem that Chillida wrote for the great cubist artist stands out among the works.