“Miró was a fantastic person, his work inspires an unusual feeling. Everyone has always noticed him because of colour, but I look at the drawings of Miró. The drawings are very important, all the curved lines were always convex, never concave. This was an important problem: I drew concave lines and his were convex. He changed my way of looking at the line and space.” (Eduardo Chillida, quoted in Sculpture Magazine, November 1997, vol. 16, no. 9)
Chillida on Miró was inspired by conversations last summer with Ignacio Chillida. His memories of the summers spent in Saint-Paul de Vence with his family and the Miró family really inspired me to want to know more about the friendship between the two artists.
Every year both artists and their families would spend several months in the summer with the Maeght family working in Saint-Paul. There was a ceramic studio and a printing studio – the press was renamed ‘La Pilar’ after Miró’s wife.
Chillida first met Miró in Paris in the late 1940s when the two artists and their wives – both named Pilar – were staying in the same hotel. Pilar Chillida would vividly recall those early days of the friendship, which grew steadily in mutual admiration and respect. Chillida viewed Miró as a revolutionary, both artistically and in his readiness to support causes he believed in – indeed Chillida himself benefited from Miró’s support during the controversy over his sculpture Lugar de Encuentros III in the 1970s. And he came to see the concave lines in his own work differently, in the light of Miró’s use of the convex. Chillida would go on to be represented by the same gallery as Miró, and in this exhibition we look at Miró’s work through Chillida’s eyes. In the catalogue we include correspondence between the two men: letters, notes and poems that are testimony to a deep friendship.
Catalogue

Chillida on Miró
27 x 21.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 7/16 in);
94 pages; fully illustrated in colour
Designed by Sinéad Madden, London
ISBN 978-0-9570287-8-4
£40.00
Press Articles
The Spectator
The Optimism of Light
21 JUNE 2014
The Sunday Telegraph
Chillida / Miró, Ordovas, review: 'refreshing'
15 JUNE 2014
The New York Times
The Art Gallery as Destination
16 JUNE 2014
Financial Times (Life&Arts)
Critics' Choice, Chillida on Miró
7 JUNE 2014
Artdaily.org
Ordovas opens the first exhibition to examine the relationship between Chillida and Miró
9 JUNE 2014
The New York Times
The Art Gallery as Destination
16 JUNE 2014
Mayfair Times
Chillida on Miró
JULY 2014
Tim Forrest's E&A
Chillida on Miró, Ordovas, London
11 JULY 2014
ABC
El diálogo eterno entre Joan Miró y Eduardo Chillida
08 June 2014
EFE
Londres recuerda la profunda amistad entre Chillida y Miró
04 June 2014
El Correo
El abrazo de Eduardo Chillida y Joan Miró
05 June 2014
El Ibérico
Llega a Londres la exposición ‘Chillida on Miró’
19 June 2014
ABC
Cultura
09 June 2014
El Diario Vasco
Chillida y Miró, una amistad que se recuerda en Londres
06 June 2014
El Ibérico
Llega a Londres la exposición 'Chillida on Miró'
05 June 2014
Ara.cat
Chillida y Miró: La amistad entre los dos artistas se exhibe en Londres
05 June 2014
La Vanguardia
Chillida y Miró, una amistad que se recuerda en Londres
04 June 2014