Embrace Xi — Eduardo Chillida

Embrace XI

A powerful interplay of forged steel and organic curves defines Eduardo Chillida's Embrace XI, a 1996 masterpiece capturing the struggle with material that invites you to explore this monumental abstract sculpture.


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Embrace XI (Besarkada XI, 1996) is a steel structure that is both vertical and curved at the same time. Unlike Advice to Space V (Consejo al espacio, 1993), also in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection, this piece is made of forged steel—it was brought forth in a struggle with the material placed in fire. The steel sections intertwine and curve, like plants that grow up from the ground and collapse upon themselves as they tightly embrace. Both Embrace XI and Advice to Space V demonstrate the connection between Chillida