Sculptor Koldobika Jauregi dies, aged 64
Euskaraz irakurri: Koldobika Jauregi eskultorea hil da, 64 urte zituela
The Basque minimalist sculptor Koldobika Jauregi Zinkunegi He died at the age of 64 due to a heart attack. The artist born in Alkiza He dedicated himself mainly to sculpture but also experimented with other fields of art such as painting, performances, production designs or video creation, among other disciplines.
He worked on everything timber and the stone and he liked to experiment with the nature of these materials. He had like teacher to Eduardo Chillida and at the reopening of Chillida Leku in 2019 he carried out an exhaustive guided tour as host to the Euskadi Irratia Faktoria program.
Jauregi began his career in the 70s and throughout his extensive career he used all types of materials, ideas and techniques.
He held more than 150 exhibitions and won a dozen scholarships and awards. Among others, she received the Zabalaga de Chillida scholarship in 1990 and had the opportunity to work with the German patron Karl Muller in the city of Düsseldorf.
His long stay in Germany had a notable influence, in the opinion of critics, on the work of Jauregi, who already enjoyed prestige in the Basque Country and that time allowed him to expand his legacy internationally.
Although he held most of his exhibitions in recent years in Germany, he also worked for his homeland. Some of his works can be seen in Idiazabal, Barakaldo, Lemoa or Donostia. Precisely, This Friday he inaugurated an exhibition in Soraluzeat the Oreka Art gallery.
In 2012 he founded the Ur Mara Museum in Alkiza, his hometown. (Video 2012):
In In 2018, the monolith for the disarmament of ETA was inaugurated in Baionaa steel and iron tree whose trunk is an inverted ax that was harshly criticized by some victims’ associations. “We are in a very paranoid society,” he defended himself in the program In Jake.
He collaborated in countless EITB programs. She was the protagonist of the program Arimaren Margolariak in 2019 and also from podcast “History and istorioak” in 2022, among others.
He currently worked and lived in Alkiza together with his partner, the artist Elena Cajaraville, with whom he co-directed the Ur Mara Museum.
Source: Eitb
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