Today he would have turned 100 years old. Her work managed to blend with the landscape. But for the young man Eduardo Chillida nothing was simple. He said that when he saw a ball over his area he I only saw figures and geometric shapesControlling time and space to get ahead of him was what took him from his first profession, Real Sociedad goalkeeper, to his final one. His son, Luis Chillidasays that the goal, inside the field, was that place where he worked also thinking about space and time.

Along the way he crossed the road of architecture, which he abandoned to study drawing in the Circle of Fine Arts. The young Chillida drew with great ease. So much so that he got bored and he decided to start drawing with his left hand. “He was very clumsy, but he said he obeyed his brain and sensitivity,” says his son.

TO Eduardo Chillida He liked to make things difficult. She even stood up to gravity. He said that from her weight he rebelled against her. It was in Paris where he discovered iron, a material that, along with concrete, was essential in his works, pieces that he wanted to be public because, according to him, what belonged to one was almost nobody’s. Putting it into practice was not so easy.

One of his best-known sculptures, ‘The comb of the wind‘ from San Sebastián, took him to confront the city council. “It didn’t even open because it wasn’t the time,” remembers his son. He had dreams left to fulfill. His great utopia, the emptying of the Tindaya mountain, was never realized.