Tindaya Elevation, situated in the municipality of La Oliva in Fuerteventura, has always been surrounded with a anulus of performance and mysticism. It is a culthus parcel of ancient Majorero natives where over 200 feet-shaped stone carvings were observed. It was proclaimed Property of Cultural Interest, Geological Interest Site and Natural Monument; Tindaya also represents an essential mining site based on the extraction of a extrusive pitch called Traquita.
When it was early discussed of carving into the mountain to build the Monument for Tolerance, a category of protection plan was created. The initial intention was to block away from explotation mining and develop the cultural tourism and ecological aspects of Tindaya through a grandiose sculpture, the greatest creation of a first class international artista like Eduardo Chillida.
Chillida created this monument as a space inspired from a compose from Jorge Guillén «depth is in the air», and wanted to look for the essence of the spirit inside the mountain. His obsession, only comparable to that of Peine del Viento (another sculpture of his), was to create a cube of 50m x 50m x 50m etched into the mountain with two skylights that would represent the Sun and the Moon. A place that as the creator himself described «would not be visual from the exterior, butonce inside and lit by the ablaze light of the sun, would evoke the very essence of humanity».
Notwithstanding, since the Canarian designer José Miguel Fernández told the artist from San Sebastian about the possibility to conceptualise his creation on the island of Fuerteventura, on the way, they were visaged with polemics of all kinds such as ecology, politics and even justice. Today, 15 years down the line, the utopia relic in the mind.
Nor Eduardo Chillida, or José Miguel Fernández Aceytuno, or José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez engineer and friend of the Basque sculptor ever managed to see the Project finished. All three died between 2000 and 2005. Now, four years later, it looks same there is light at the end of the tunnel. Lorenzo Fernández Ordóñez, leader of the Guadiana Foundation, has recovered the primary ideas from his father and from Chillida himself to finally make the Tindaya plan a reality.
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