The indispensable Spanish creator Eduardo Chillida passed away in August 2002, and ten years later Galeria Cayon proposed to pay tribute to this artist with the exhibition titled Papier découpé y gravitaciones, inaugurated on September 20.
This showcase specifically targets an unexplored facet of Chillida’s work –who was basically known as a sculptor–: the exploration of paper as a material that can be cut out and, in a way, silhouetted with semi-sculptural shape, which takes us back to the essence of this creator. Nearly twenty pieces prove that paper wasn’t just a simple material to hold ink: it was an autonomous expression mean with forms that are tightly linked to his sculptures, specifically to the cut out paper series started back in the 1950s and 1960s, and ended with the “gravitations” that came up in late 1980s.
Just as the artist said: “one day I told myself, `why are you creating collages if you don’t like glue?´ It was then when I stopped using glue and decided to apply space instead of glue. I put paper over paper and hung them with ropes and named them ´gravitations´.”
Galeria Cayon
Orfila 10 Madrid 28010
Source: Press release
