A Revelatory Retrospective
Rachel Jans ’00 is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. She recently curated Eduardo Chillida: Convergence, which was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal in December 2025.
Reports The Wall Street Journal:
"For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea. He never did so, but four centuries on another sculptor, the Spaniard Eduardo Chillida, would execute a project of like ambition. “Comb of the Wind XV” (1976) is an environmental work consisting of three roughly 7-foot-long claw-like forged steel sculptures, each one weighing about 10 tons, embedded in the rocks on Spain’s northern coast not far from Bilbao amid the crashing waves of the Atlantic."