“From space, together with its brother time, under persistent gravity, feeling matter as a slower form of space, I ask myself with amazement about what I don’t know. I work to know, and I value knowing more than knowledge. I believe that I should try to do what I don’t know how to do, try to see where I can’t see, to recognise what I don’t recognise, to identify in the unknown. In these processes, which are similar to those in creative science, there are many difficulties.” Eduardo Chillida

The Consejo al espacio series makes direct reference to the artist’s relationship with architecture. Chillida may not have completed his architecture degree, but this discipline was nonetheless influential in his work. His sculptures have an unquestionable architectural element to them. Chillida was a creator of spaces. He used his work to delimit spaces and to design accessible voids that can be experienced corporeally. In this sculpture, the visitor can enter and feel the space. Chillida's voids can be inhabited by the spirit. They are meeting places with the work and with oneself. Like in other series, such as Peine del viento (Comb of the Wind) or Escuchando la piedra (Listening to the Rock), Chillida uses a poetic wordplay in the title. Poetry formed an intrinsic component in his work. For Chillida, a work needs two essential ingredients in order to function: poetry and structure, the key components of all arts. 

The museum houses other sculptures from the series, including Consejo al espacio VII (1996), Consejo al espacio VIII and Consejo al espacio IX (2000).