Detail Of A Sculpture In The Eduardo Chillida Leku Sculpture Park In Hernani, Spain Editorial Photo

Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque 10 January 1924 – 19 August 2002, was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works. In the early 1980s Chillida and his wife bought a sixteenth century Basque farmhouse and surrounding land at Hernani near San Sebastián to establish a permanent place to display his work in a natural environment. This opened in the 1990s as Chillida Leku, an open-air museum where visitors could wander among the sculptures. The museum closed by 2011 but reopened in 2019 with the backing of Hauser & Wirth, a Swiss modern art gallery. Leku means `place` in Basque. The 11-hectare Chillida Leku garden is home to more than 40 monumental sculptures. The carefully arranged works converse with nature as well as with one another. There are two distinct areas in the external part of the museum.