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DODECATHLOS (2001)Vicente Larrea (Bilbao 1934)

LOCATION: Euskalduna Conference Centre

CHARACTERICS: 72 tonnes of iron

Dodecathos or the Toils of Hercules by Vicente LARREA, who considered thatthis piece would best represent and praise the effort of the industrial workersof Greater Bilbao.

Weighing 72 tonnes, this sculpture of a human torso was placed at the entranceto the Euskalduna Conference Centre in 2001. Far from the original style of itscreator, the arms are held high and are full of cavities.

Measuring over 5 metres high and weighing around 2,000 kg., Dali createdthe mould for the Muse of the Dance in 1971, which was first cast for theBilbao exhibit. Part of the Isidro CLOT collection, it is the only one in Europe,being one of two of its kind in the world.

The Provincial Government of Bizkaia acquired this piece thanks to a “donation”from Seguros Bilbao insurance company in exchange for taxes outstanding.According to Government sources, the approximate value of this transactionwas 100 million pesetas (¤600,000).

TERPSÍCORE (1971-2003)MUSE OF THE DANCE

Salvador DALI (Catalonia 1904-1989)

LOCATION: Euskalduna Conference Centre

CHARACTERISTICS: over 5 metres high, approx. 2,000 kg in weight

A LA DERIVA(SHIPWRECKED)Jose ZUGASTI (Eibar 1952)

LOCATION: Ribera Park near Euskalduna Conference Centre

CHARACTERISTICS: Spatial composition based on curved, chromedsteel bars, deeply inspired by industry

This is a metaphor for erosion. The sculptor wants to pay homage to theshipbuilding and metal industry of the past. The Euskalduna Conference Centredoes just that, symbolising the industrial past, its more or less splendorousbeginning, its decadence and final days beside the Nervion-Ibaizabal River.Transparent and looking toward the River, the Promenade, and the splendidiron façade of the Conference Centre, Shipwrecked finds its instability andexistential weight are supported. It aspires to be part of that memory, an aestheticbody from an epoch gone by. Its struggle to stay alive, progressive erosion andfinal days next to the River that witnessed its birth, this work remains a metaphorof an industrial age.

Constructed of 42 mm compact iron hoops, these designs in the air give us thesensation of falling with a loud crash from a height of 5 metres.

SITIOS Y LUGARES(SITES AND PLACES) (2002)Angel GARRAZA (Allo, Navarre 1950)

LOCATION: Ribera Park

CHARACTERISTICS: Concrete tiles with ceramic tiles and 100 tonnes in weight

Sites and Places is composed of two compact concrete and ceramic tiles. Onerests horizontally and the other one appears as though it had been knockeddown.

The artist offers physical and anthropological relationships with the environmentthrough the shape of the traditional Basque kaiku, wooden receptacles thatwere used to boil milk or make cheese. The familiar kaiku shapes are found tobe close to the observer's experience.

Transformed and enlarged, the capacity as container or receptacle has beeneliminated. The repetitive circular modules on the skin-like surface strengthenthe perception of powerful and pregnant shapes.

UNTITLED (2002)Ulrich RÜCKRIEM (Germany 1938)

Location: Churruca Pier, Ribera Park

Characteristics: 4 square metres of Bleu de Vire granite

This structure is not a sole element, nor merely an object, but rather it leads torepetition, proposing a journey through its various elements. Its minimalistaesthetic, where less means more, intends to offer simple shapes and geometricvolumes.

Constructed of granite slabs, its smoothly polished sides and rough, uneven flattop is reminiscent of an organic landscape. The other elements are distant andaligned but hardly distinguishable because they form part of the pavement.In order to discover what game the artist is suggesting, we follow the imaginarybread crumbs on the ground, continuing along the pavement tiles. The first isjust a plain surface square that is later divided and the next one in turn, untilthe last one has ten parts. The end result of the trajectory offers many naturalgeometric and functional suggestions for arranging space.

MAIA (2002)WILLIAM TUCKER (U.K. 1935)

LOCATION: between Deusto Bridge and Father Arrupe Pedrestrian Bridge

CHARACTERISTICS:Bronze piece and 3.5 tonnes in weight

Weighing 3,500 kg, this three metre high bronze structure is not a sole element,nor merely an object, but rather it leads to roaming, proposing a journey throughits various elements. Its minimalist aesthetic, where less means more, attemptsto offer simple shapes and geometric volumes.

Maia, the name of the god Brahma, evokes a pregnant woman emerging fromthe earth. This biomorphic volume evinces the mobility of awakening by meansof an uneven surface full of bulges and changes.

JUDITH (2000)MARKUS LÜPERTZ (GERMANY 1941)

LOCATION: Ribera Park, in front of the library

CHARACTERISTICS: 1,500 kilos of modelled bronze

When speaking about this work, the sculptor Markus Lüpertz calls his Juditha Baroque piece. The Jewish heroine has a complicated story. With the helpof a maid-servant, she seduced the Assyrian general Holofernes and beheadedhim. As the myth has it, when displayed, the sight of the head made the enemyarmy flee in fear, thus saving the people of Bethulia.

Made from modelled bronze and located in Ribera Park since 2003, this threemetre high, 1,500 kg structure is direct and impassioned. The face stands outfrom the rest of the sculpture. The expressionist sculptor, who knows Bilbaowell, also has work on exhibit at the nearby Fine Arts Museum.

BEGIRARI IV (THE GUARDIAN IV)(1997, installed in 2003)Eduardo CHILLIDA (Donostia 1924-2002)

LOCATION: Father Arrupe Pedrestrian Bridge

CHARACTERISTICS: Corten steel. Height: 7.1 metres

Almost like a watchful lighthouse, this vertical work stands like a totem pole.The corten steel structure goes from narrow at the bottom to wide at the top,where there is a hollow, giving the appearance of a gigantic Cyclops whokeeps a watchful eye on the place.

EXPLORER'S BOOKSIR ANTHONY CARO (LONDON, 1924)

LOCATION: Next to Pedro Arrupe Pedrestrian Bridge

CHARACTERISTICS: steel and concrete

MEASUREMENTS: 1.63 x 1.9 x 2.05 metres

Located on the Pedro Arrupe Pedestrian Bridge, this steel and concrete piecereminds us of an open book. Composed of leftover parts from steel ship anchors,the artist expresses his personal grammar, which is somewhere betweenfigurative and abstract.

Part of a plan to acquire sculptures to enhance this promenade along what usedto be the old docks and piers of the Port of Bilbao; this area has been recentlyconverted into a leisure and recreation area for the residents of the city to enjoy.Sir Anthony CARO is considered one of the renovators of English contemporarysculpture and one of the most significant abstract sculptors of today. He is amember of the Academies of Fine arts in London, Berlin and Milan. He hasbeen professor at St. Martin's School of Art, London where he has had greatinfluence on at least two generations of artists.

On permanent display outside the museum, Puppy by Jeff Koons engages pastand present. This 12-foot flowered sculpture, formed from a stainless-steelstructure and designed with sophisticated computer modeling, references 18th-century formal gardens.

A West Highland terrier-originally a carved wooden sculpture-Puppy combinesthe most saccharine of iconography-flowers and puppies-in a monument to thesentimental.

PUPPY 1992JEFF KOONS ( York, Pennsylvania, 1996.)

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Stainless steel, soil and flowering plants1240 x 830 x 910 cm

Tulips, is an enormous polychrome structure in transparent colour-coated chromestainless steel portraying a bouquet of seven tulips measuring approximatelyfive metres to form an artwork of 203 x 460 x 520 cm.

The tulips are conceived like enormous luminescent coloured balloons, transmittinga feeling of weightlessness contrasting with the heavy material of their constructionto increase the irony of the piece. Their artificial appearance is the perfectreflection of the subject approached by Jeff Koons in his Celebration series andother sculptures like Balloon Dog and Moon.

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: High chrome content stainless steel sculpture203 x 460 x 520 cm

TULIPS 1995-2004JEFF KOONS (York, Pensilvania, 1955)

TALL TREE & THE EYE. 2009ANISH KAPOOR (Bombay, India 1954)

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Stainless steel spheres

Positioned in front of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao at the North Pondadjoining the Nervion River, is the luminous work Tall Tree & the Eye (2009).Consisting of almost 80 stainless steel spheres, Tall Tree & the Eye multipliesits surroundings producing reflections that are fractal. Each sphere reflects notjust itself and its neighbors but merges into its positioned landscape, reflectingthe Museum’s silhouette and the architecture surrounding the piece in an endlessprocess.

The angle of the images changes as the viewer’'D5s gaze climbs up the sculpture.Thus, the artist expresses the transient nature of how things appear and througha complex use of light and shadows, of volume and space, makes us contemplatethe instability of the visible world, bringing sky and clouds down to earth.

FIRE FOUNTAIN 1961Yves Klein (Nice, France, 1928 - París,

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Fire. Site specific dimensions

Consisting of five separate fountains pouring fire into the sky, and envisagedfor an open public space, Fire Fountain (1960-61), by French artist Yves Klein,is the most ambitious of his fire pieces and existed only in sketches before itsfabrication for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

The artist's use of fire as a medium extended in form at Krefeld, Germany,during his 1961 retrospective, to his fire drawings and fire paintings, as well ashis projects for an architecture of air, fire, and water, elements that were toprovide the walls of his proposed utopian communities.

With the ephemeral quality of her installations, Fujiko Nakaya (b. 1933, Sapporo,Japan) has been experimenting with the artistic potential of artificially producedwater-fog in environmental pieces since 1970s. Initial development for her foginstallations was provided by Experiments in Art and Technology, a New York-based organization for promoting artistic and technological collaborations foundedby artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Kluver.

Her installation Fog Sculpture # 08025 (F.O.G.) (1998), specially commissionedfor the water-garden area of the back of the building, is an atmospheric sculptureshaped instantaneously by the environment where it is created.

FOG SCULPTURE. 1998# 08025 (F.O.G.)FUJIKO NAKAYA (Sapporo, Japan, 1933)

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Water-fog generated by 1,000 fog nozzlesand high-pressure pump/motor system. Site specific dimensions.Gift of Robert Rauschenberg.

Over a career that spans more than six decades, Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911,Paris) has created a rich and ever-evolving body of work that oscillates betweenabstraction and the visceral representation of psychic states. Part of her recentSpider series, the graceful, bronze Maman (1999), installed behind the building,addresses the duplicitous nature of maternity; the silk of a spider is used bothto construct cocoons and to bind prey.

Bourgeois explores the complexity of the human mind, publicly exorcising heremotional demons and poetically re-creating childhood associations in the formof a gigantic insect.

MAMAN 1999 (Cast 2001)LOUISE BOURGEOIS (Paris, 1911, New York, 2010)

UBICACIÓN: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Bronze, stainless steel and marble.895 x 980 x 1160 cm.

Daniel Buren decided to make the structure of the La Salve Bridge less brutal, but morevisible. With this in mind, he designed a vertical piece perpendicular to the bridge, out ofwhich he cut three circles located at equal distances from each other.

This work will be inaugurated on the occasion of the Museum’s 10th anniversary. It will createa central circle around the road, in addition to two semicircles that will also be reflected onthe water and in the air. The surface is red in color, while the outer edges of the piece andthe inside of the arches are vertically striped in black and white. The borders are made of atranslucent material that makes it possible to add plays of light at night.

The artist has taken into account the different properties of the context in order to create thiswork. The first of these is the fact that the site is located at the immediate entrance to thecity center, a function that is effectively performed by the central circle. The second is thepresence of the museum, with an architecture that combines curved and vertical shapes.The outer edges of the structure produce verticality, while the circles provide curves.Thethird is the presence of titanium, which produces a mirror-like effect. The red color wastherefore chosen to contrast with the green of the bridge, and to add an additional coloredreflection on the titanium. The fourth is the presence of the estuary, which reflects Buren’swork and can seemingly lengthen it. The fifth and final element are the cars traveling acrossthe bridge, which produce a horizontal play of light. The artist will install vertical plays of lighton the inner and outer edges in order to create a dialog with those caused by the cars.

ARCOS ROJOS / ARKU GORRIAK 2007DANIEL BUREN(Boulougne-Billancourt, Francia, 1938)

LOCATED: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

CHARACTERISTICS: Compact laminate sheets, aluminum, galvanized steel,PVC film, clear plexiglas, LEDs and Metal Halide ProjectorsModified structure dimensions 57,5 x 27,85 x 2,17 m

LA PUERTA DE LOS HONORABLESMONUMENTO A RUBIAL(THE DOOR OF THE HONOURABLEMONUMENT TO RUBIAL) (2000-2001)CASTO SOLANO (ALAVA 1958)

LOCATION: La Campa de los ingleses Park

CHARACTERISTICS: Bronze and iron

This is a dual monument to the Spanish socialist politician, Ramon RUBIAL.The preliminary sketch was presented in the year 2000 and this scultpure wasinaugurated in 2001. Composed in bronze, the realistic, full body figure appearsto be moving forward with its hands in its pockets. The figure is moving towardsthe so-called Door of the Honourable, a prism shaped iron block which magnifiesthe perspective of the politician by using a large empty space inside the prism.

MUSA (MUSE) (1948)ENRIQUE BARROS (1905-1990)

LOCATION: Uribitarte

CHARACTERISTICS: Limestone

This work was intended to substitute an allegoric nude sculpture that scandalisedsociety of the period following the Spanish Civil War. From 1948 to 1975 Musastood on a pedestal, as arranged by sculptor Paco DURRIO in homage to theBasque musician, Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga.

It has since been exhibited in a number of places: next to the pond in DoñaCasilda Park and, since 1985, in the Casilla Gardens. In the year 2000, it wasrelocated to Uribitate Avenue where it has been ever since.