Tindaya, The Immortal Ideate Of Eduardo Chillida.-00-6655

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Tindaya Elevation, situated in the municipality of La Oliva in Fuerteventura, has always been surrounded with a anulus of wizard and mysticism. It is a culthus position of ancient Majorero natives where over 200 feet-shaped stone carvings were determined. It was declared Property of Cultural Interest, Geological Interest Site and Natural Monument; Tindaya also represents a fundamental mining site based on the extraction of a volcanic pitch called Traquita.

When it was foremost discussed of carving into the mountain to build the Monument for Tolerance, a consideration of protection plan was created. The initial intention was to block away from explotation mining and develop the cultural tourism and ecological aspects of Tindaya through a grandiose sculpture, the leading creation of a first class international artista like Eduardo Chillida.

Chillida created this monument as a space inspired from a verse from Jorge Guillén «depth is in the air», and wanted to look for the essence of the spirit inside the elevation. His obsession, only comparable to that of Peine del Viento (another sculpture of his), was ...
... to create a cube of 50m x 50m x 50m etched into the mountain with two skylights that would represent the Sun and the Moon. A location that as the creator himself described «would not be visual from the exterior, butonce inside and illuminated by the airy light of the sun, would evoke the very essence of humanity».

Nonetheless, since the Canarian creator José Miguel Fernández told the artist from San Sebastian about the possibility to conceptualize his creation on the island of Fuerteventura, on the way, they were visaged with polemics of all kinds such as ecology, politics and even justice. Today, 15 years down the line, the utopia relic in the mind.

Nor Eduardo Chillida, or José Miguel Fernández Aceytuno, or José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez engineer and friend of the Basque sculptor ever managed to see the Project completed. All three died between 2000 and 2005. Now, four years later, it looks equal there is bright at the end of the tunnel. Lorenzo Fernández Ordóñez, head of the Guadiana Foundation, has recovered the primary ideas from his father and from Chillida himself to finally make the Tindaya work a reality.

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