Discover the contemporary work of Jesus ECHEVARRIA

Jesús ECHEVARRIA (1916-2009) born in Baranbio (Alava–Spain). Marked by: his cultural childhood, his Basque nationalist fight during the Spanish Civil War, prisoner under Franco, his meeting with his wife Maialen Gastigard, there he began sculpture, Romanesque Art, Egyptian Statuary, Giacometti, Brancusi, Sthaly.
Self-taught, far from the great movements, trends, fashions, he has covered the great stages of sculpture, from imagery to abstraction, from matter to the immaterial.

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“I came to sculpture through music”, confesses Jesús ECHEVARRIA.
His cousin JOSÉ URUÑUELA spent all his holidays with his parents. He was a friend of RAVEL, JOSÉ URUÑUELA a talented pianist who played every summer night until two or three in the morning: the child listened to him in ecstasy. ”