Shrine of Aranzazu. Myth and secret

Authors

  • JAVIER GONZÁLEZ DE DURANA

Keywords:

Myth, Oteiza, nationalism, Francoism, art.

Abstract

Before the inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the contemporary building most cited by historians concerned with Basque art was a shrine erected on a rocky place, at the edge of abysses and surrounded by rocks, in the municipality of Oñate. Located in a magical place with mythical resonances, this construction has been subject of a lack of clear knowledge of the circumstances in which it was erected. Looking for the details, the myth disappears and appear the men —their efforts and limitations, their yearnings and miseries. Projected initially in the context of the 1950s without special basquist connotations as a traditional architectural proposal, but plastic and ornamentally modern that collided with the reserves of the political and religious authority, in the 1970s it was transformed into a symbol of certain exalted forms of basquism appeared around ETA.

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Published

2008-04-25

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DOSSIER

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