The artist’s engagement with philosophers and writers began in 1956 when Gaston Bachelard wrote an essay, Le Cosmos du Fer about Chillida’s early works in wrought iron presented at the Galerie Maeght in Paris. Later, in 1968 Chillida met the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and, the following year, collaborated with him on an illustrated version of his text, Die Kunst Und Der Raum. Both conceived of space as a material medium of relational contact and understood sculpture as a means of revealing how we belong in the world.

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