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Variante Ovoide Sculpture

Variante Ovoide Sculpture

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Variante Ovoide Sculpture

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Location: Bilbao, Gran Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain

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3. View of Bilbao from Artxanda – Zubizuri Bridge loop from Askatasuna Etorbidea

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Dirk V 🚲 🚶📷

February 16, 2025

This work is made of corten steel to resemble ships. Its diameter is six meters and its height is almost eight meters. The vision is surprising because of the tension between the static and the dynamic. It is also convenient that it is located between the city hall and the river.

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Vicent CT

April 12, 2024

On the banks of the estuary and in front of the Town Hall stands the imposing sculpture Variante Ovoide, the work of the Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003).
The sculpture was created by J. Oteiza as an exercise in emptiness, specifically the result of the vacancy of a sphere. A geometric body that is recreated in the void that is generated and that is made with contained steel, a material that, together with its location, recalls the hulls of the ships that were manufactured and sailed through the Bilbao estuary. The sculpture is eight meters high, six meters in diameter and weighs 16 tons. Ovoid Variant, created in 1958, is an example of the work undertaken by Oteiza to recover European geometric aesthetics, and constitutes one of his last works before abandoning sculpture in 1959. The work was placed in front of the City Hall in 2002.
The sculpture is popularly known as the “txapela a mediolateral”.

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Denis

April 22, 2024

One of those abstract sculptures that can mean anything or nothing, but add to the overall attraction of the place.

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Variante Ovoide Sculpture

1. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – Plaza Nueva (Bilbao) loop from Santutxu

2. Zubizuri Bridge – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao loop from Sarriko

3. View of Bilbao from Artxanda – Zubizuri Bridge loop from Askatasuna Etorbidea

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