The meeting between Chillida and Tàpies, the abyss of Cristina Iglesias and the town of Cy Schnabel: travel with art to San Sebastián in three stops and some extras

Hondalea ("Marine Abyss", in Basque), the work in question, has had its official inauguration shortly after settling on the island of Santa Clara.With all rigor authorities.And you have not lacked illustrious visitors such as Norman and Elena Foster.

From the beginning it has been said a lot about her, for and against.The second focuses on the possible media environmental impact and its cost for the City Council that, between civil works and the production of the work, amounts to about four and a half million euros, VAT included.The artist has donated her fees, so that this item has saved from the budget.There has been much talk about all tons of bronze transferred by helicopter and assembled in situ, the liters of the closed circuit of water of its tramoya, the working days and the own dimensions of the artifact, as if instead of aInstallation that was Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, so there is no reason to repeat it.

Let's say instead that before seeing her I thought a series of things about her, and I still think them later.Above all, that it does not seem very questionable that a current and internationally recognized Donostiarra artist accordingof the same bay.

El encuentro entre Chillida y Tàpies, el abismo de Cristina Iglesias y la villa de Cy Schnabel: viaje con arte a San Sebastián en tres paradas y algunos extras