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The Regional Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena (Muram) today opened the exhibition 'Searching for the light', in which a series of sculptures of various formats, techniques and corresponding to 30 years of creation of the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida materials shown.
The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Spokesperson and Eduardo Chillida-Pilar Belzunce Foundation.
The Muram hosts until the end of August, this selection of 39 works made with materials like alabaster, steel and fireclay land as well as works on paper (drawings, collages, prints and gravitations) whose protagonist brightness makes particularly each parts occupying different floors of the museum.
The Minister of Culture and the regional government spokesman, Noelia Arroyo, and the curator of the exhibition, Ignacio Chillida Belzunce, presented this morning to the media this exhibition that shows the contrasts between the Atlantic light and the Mediterranean and the difference between two cultures, a more introverted, dark, airtight and other marked by a clear and palpable brightness characteristic of ancient Greece, the light of reason and criticism.
Arroyo declared that "Chillida's work is present in museums and art collections in the world and now, in the Murcia region, we have the privilege of enjoying a tour over 30 years of creation who is qualified as the greatest exponent of Spanish sculpture from the second half of the twentieth century. "
With this exhibition, "from the regional government contribute to even closer to society figure Chillida and give a new impetus to Muram as a reference center in contemporary art," added the Minister of Culture.
The Chillida is the most important exhibition of the season Muram, in a new line of programming which are very important artists of the Region of Murcia (now you can see the exhibition 'The light echo' and soon it will also showcase the work of Charris) and also pays attention to young artists and new languages ​​in contemporary art.
This new and expanded exhibition program, complemented with increasing parallel activities, "is having a great reception by the public, as during the first months has doubled the number of visitors compared to last year, some good results improve thanks to this exceptional exhibition of Chillida, "explained Arroyo.
Know the unknown
The visitor 'Chillida.
Seeking light 'receives in the Muram, on the ground floor, one of the most important pieces of the exhibition: a large sculpture of steel, 1,300 kg, belonging to the series' Council to space', which is complemented in the room with a recorded large.
The first and second floor of the museum are dedicated, each, a type of light.
Large alabaster, a stone, 'gravitations' (a kind of paper sculptures suspended by ropes, as if gravitate and ascend) and 'land' or 'Lurrak' refer to white light.
The dark is also represented by iron sculptures, plus 'gravitations', collages and drawings.
All works are original and were made by Chillida between 1970 and late 90s.
The tour of the light emitting properties of the works of Chillida is closely linked to each of the materials worked, in which light becomes highly nuanced.
'Looking for the light' refers to the creative energy that accompanies the artist throughout his career and his desire to capture light to create different intensities.
In this sense, the works of Chillida also symbolize the deepest human desire, strong will to understand and to know.
The sample is also full with 39 exhibited original works, with a series of objects as models, sketches, drawings and materials used by Eduardo Chillida in his works under the name of 'History of the materialization', aims to show how he worked the creator.
New example of collaboration
'Chillida.
Seeking light 'is the result of collaboration between the regional government and the Eduardo Chillida-Pilar Belzunce Foundation.
This is a new example of the links created from the Ministry of Culture and other associations, organizations, institutions and foundations that give rise to new projects.
"Culture should be a project of all and the whole society must get involved and take sides; also companies and citizens themselves," said Noelia Arroyo, who explained that "so we understand from the regional government and therefore have promoted measures as the new plan of tax incentives which will benefit many citizens who also believe that culture is vital to our development as a society, to promote our tourism and also one of the main economic engines "sector.
Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) has gone down in history for his work in sculpture and mastery of materials and space.
His work is represented in museums and collections around the world and its sculptures are facing the sea in San Sebastian and in cities like Washington, Paris, Lund, Munster, Madrid, Helsinki, Basel, Palma de Mallorca, Guernica or Berlin.
About his work they have written architects, mathematicians, philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Emil Cioran, or poets like Octavio Paz.
'Chillida.
Looking light 'can be visited for free at the Cartagena Muram until late August.
The museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 19:00 hours;
Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00, and on Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 14:00.
Source: CARM
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