EDUARDO CHILLIDA (1924-2002)

‘These blocks of earth without edges, like the rocks of Cuzco, reveal the Organic geometry that resides in the sculptor’s work. It is a geometry that, more that inscribed in the material, in is intrinsic to the earth itself. The lurras are blocks which, like mud, fold in on themselves from their weight, their moist gravity. If a piece of paper cannot fit between the large blocks of the walls of Cuzco, Chillida’s lurras erect spaces. If the edges of the Cyclopic stones of Cuzco create a linear dynamic in the wall’s immense volume, the lines cut into the fired clay conform sculptural spaces.’
(K. de Baranano, Chillida: 1948-1998, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina, Madrid, Sofía, 2000, p.40)