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Sacred Space Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura

Tindaya was meant to be the final masterpiece of the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida: a sculptural intervention inside a majestic mountain in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, which involved digging.

Sacred Space Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura

The Montaña de Tindaya is a mountain in Fuerteventura,. The mountain is the proposed site of Monument to Tolerance, an artwork conceived by the sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), that would involve the excavation a large artificial cave. Local environmentalists objected to the project.

Sergio Casado Illustrations — The spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida’s

Guide for hiking in Fuerteventura and climbing on Montana de Tindaya. Length of the route: 2,1 km. Difficulty: low. Maximum elevation: 401 m. Duration: ~ 2 hours. Special permit: in order to be allowed to hike on Montana de Tindaya you are required to ask for a permit from the Cabildo - Consejeria de Medio Ambiente del Cabildo.

Montana Tindaya Eduardo Chillida Fuerteventura Espana Floornature

El de Eduardo Chillida fue el vaciado de la montaña de Tindaya (La Oliva, Fuerteventura) para crear en su interior un cubo vacío de 50 metros de lado (equivalente a un edificio de 17 plantas.

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Eduardo Chillida y José A. Fernández-Ordóñez durante una visita a Tindaya (1994). La Montaña Mágica de Tindaya. El proyecto más ambicioso y polémico de Chillida. Tanto, que aún no ha sido llevado a cabo desde que en 1994 el artista aceptara la propuesta. Había recibido propuestas de otros lugares que no le convencieron hasta que José.

Eduardo Chillida's Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura, Spain, 1993

The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been surrounded by controversy since the mid-1990s. It is, at once, a listed indigenous site, a protected natural environment, a mining resource, and the designated location of a monumental intervention by artist Eduardo Chillida, consisting in digging a grand cubic cave in its interior.

Sacred Space Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura

marked Tindaya as a ritual centre and sacred site for the indigenous population of the island, the Mahos. The posters argue that, while it is officially protected, Tindaya's pre-Spanish heritage remains understudied and under threat, both by Chillida's proposed Monument and by the mountain's several quarries. A case is made that a sustainable

Eduardo Chillida, frente a la montaña de Tindaya Cultura EL PAÍS

Mount Tindaya. Its summit reaches just 400m above sea level, but Mount Tindaya is the most important - and famous - mountain on the island. The peak, 6km south of La Oliva, has a special place in local history and mythology. More than 200 Guanche rock carvings have been found on the slopes, many in the shape of footprints seemingly pointing.

Montana Tindaya Eduardo Chillida Fuerteventura Espana Floornature

The space designed by Eduardo Chillida in Montana Tindaya is a truly evocative, mystical sculptural environment, an architecture of hollows decorated only by the matter that forms them. The dimensions and structure of the work were affected by geomorphic properties and by the presence of fissures and basins within the mountain, of volcanic.

Eduardo Chillida’s Tindaya Mountain Project, Fuerteventura.

Eduardo Chillida trabajó, entre tantas otras obras de este tipo, en una que, sin embargo, reconoce como singular en su trayectoria. Dejó planteado un proyecto de arquitectura excavada-escultura en una montaña sagrada de Fuerteventura, el Tindaya.En ella existe en la actualidad un antigua cantera de traquita -una piedra vítrea semipreciosa-, con lo que son los mismos operarios de ésta.

Sacred Space Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura

Eduardo Chillida Leku, director of the Chillida Leku estate and one of the sculptor's eight children, said the revival of the Tindaya project now is just a coincidence. "We have spent time talking and have carried on doing the necessary steps, such as the environmental impact assessment, which was an essential topic," he said.

Sacred Space Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya Project, Fuerteventura

Renace la montaña sagrada de Chillida Tras 18 años de polémicas, una reunión entre la familia y el Gobierno canario reflota el proyecto de Tindaya 19 ene 2011 - 00:00 CET

Fuerteventura da carpetazo a la idea de Chillida y decide proteger

Proyecto Tindaya de Eduardo Chillida. Tras años de búsqueda del sitio ideal para su visión de "un monumento a la tolerancia", Eduardo Chillida, uno de los escultores más prestigiosos, descubrió la montaña Tindaya en la isla española de Fuerteventura, frente a la costa africana. La visión escultórica de Chillida era la de un.

Cuando en 1994 Chillida eligió la montaña de Tindaya para construir en

tura, with Tindaya and Chillida, wou ld raise the bar —it'd become a w orldwide refere nce in cult ure the da y after the Monument op ened." 1 0 I find these images of instant and universal.

Eduardo Chillida > Projecte per la montanya de Tindaya > La Oliva

Chillida's sculptural vision was for a cubic 'carved space' inside Mount Tindaya: at 45m x 50m x 65m, it would be one of the largest underground caverns ever constructed, and the only one of its kind with a flat roof. Chillida is reported to have said: "my sculpture wants this mountain, it is now time to see whether the mountain wants my.

Montana Tindaya Eduardo Chillida Fuerteventura Spagna Floornature

Sacred Mountain of Tindaya. One of the most remarkable places in Fuerteventura. This "magical and sacred" place in the northwest of the island, as catalogued by the Canarian aborigines, reaches almost 400 meters high and covers an area of 182.61 hectares and is located in the municipality of La Oliva. In 1987 it was designated as a Protected.