what’s news Roca Gallery Eduardo Chillida’s lesser- known works, brought together in an exhibition Chillida. Between the shapes provided the first opportunity for viewing a number of works that had previously remained within the Spanish sculptor’s family circle The Roca Barcelona Gallery hosted the exhibition Chillida. Between the shapes, organised by Roca in collaboration with the Eduardo Chillida – Pilar Belzunce Foundation. This collection of works, plans, sculptures of different materials, graphical works, manuscripts and photographs showed the most intimate side of the sculptor from San Sebastián, who called himself the “architect of emptiness”. The exhibition focused on three key aspects of Chillida’s work: his public pieces, his graphic creations and his small- format works, uneven and quite different from more common ceramic processes, which reflect his lesser-known side. Worthy of particular note is Heidegger and Chillida’s manuscript Art and space, displayed for the first time in Barcelona and in which the philosopher and sculptor take an in-depth look at the intersections and divergences of their works, whilst covering the concerns that, in both disciplines, lead mankind to the limits of thought. The exhibition was opened in January and attended by many members of the public, with Ignacio Chillida, the sculptor’s son and curator of his work, took part in the inauguration, highlighting the Roca Barcelona Gallery’s great potential for embodying the artist’s aphorisms and thoughts, as well as his way of understanding space, materials and time, reflected in the many original works on display. The fact is that the structure of the Roca Barcelona Gallery, with its glass façade (which plays with the duality between the building’s exterior and the intimacy of its interior spaces) permitted dialogue with the exhibition, designed to impact upon this relationship between interior and exterior with the presence of the artist’s graphical works. The opening of the exhibition Chillida. Between the shapes Manuscripts and inscriptions Logos created by Eduardo Chillida 22