Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Artist:
Eduardo Chillida.

Exhibition description:
Le Poème – Parménide, a portfolio of six original etchings by the Basque sculptor and printmaker Eduardo Chillida was presented by Professor Giovanni Carandente at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on May 22, 1999. The artist was present on this occasion. Each printed on traditional Eskulan handmade paper at the Atelier Chillida, San Sebastian, the six etchings were the fruit of a five-year collaboration between the artist and Art of This Century, the Parisian publishing company directed by Sandro Rumney, grandson of Peggy Guggenheim, which specializes in such commissions. Having been awarded the Prize for Sculpture at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the Prix Kandinsky in 1960, Chillida began to work simultaneously with etchings, lithographs and woodcuts. Encouraged by the response to his illustrations for Jorge Guillén’s Mas Alla (1973), texts by the Romanian author Emil Cioran and a book of poetry by Clara Janes, Chillida here took as his inspiration the didactic works of Parmenides, the Greek philosopher and poet of the 5th Century BC.

The etchings are each signed by the artist and uniquely inscribed PGC 1/1. An additional hundred numbered proofs and ten each of the artist and the printmaker exist.

Partnerships:
Organized by Sandro Rumney and Art of This Century.