Jorge Oteiza Enbil

Miejsce: Orio

Urodzony: 1908

Śmierć: 2003

Biografia:

Jorge Oteiza Enbil (October 21, 1908 – April 9, 2003) was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer from the Basque Autonomous Community. He is renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art. Oteiza was born in Orio, Gipuzkoa, Spain. He moved to South America in 1935 and returned to Spain in 1948. In 1959, he published Quosque tandem!, an essay about the aesthetics inherent to Basque soul, based on prehistoric art found in Basque regions and Basque people's anthropological roots. Three years on, he contributed to found the artistic group Gaur. He died in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, in 2003. Following his will, a month after his death a museum dedicated to his career was opened in Alzuza, Navarre, in the place where he had lived since 1975. The Oteiza Museum is a monographic exhibition space housing the personal collection of Jorge Oteiza, which includes 1,690 sculptures, 2,000 experimental pieces from the artist's Chalk Laboratory, and an extensive collection of drawings and collages.