Cristina Iglesias
30 Jan - 30 Mar 2007
CRISTINA IGLESIAS
Opening: Tuesday, 30th of January, 2007 at 19.00 hrs. With the artist’s presence.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30 to 14.00 hrs. and 17.00 to 20.30 hrs.
Saturdays by appointment.
Galería Pepe Cobo, together with Galería Elba Benitez simultaneously present two parallel projects by artist Cristina Iglesias, whose work is characterized by her use of diverse materials and artistic disciplines: she uses sculpture, architecture, photography and drawing to recreate invented spaces that have literary reminiscences.
At the Galería Pepe Cobo, the central piece exhibited represents a step further in her continuous development of these facets in the search for a dramatization of space that provokes different ways of viewing things.
The visitor enters into a strange world, which through a rectangular passage, whose walls and ceiling with metal plated cables, envelops and isolates him from the exterior, and transports him to another place in space.
Inspired by science fiction texts that suggest to her notions about new places, Iglesias constructs this structure with a fragment from J. G. Ballard’s novel “The Cristal World”, barely decipherable, originating a mysterious relation with the surface in which they develop and challenging the viewer to pay attention in order to decipher them and provide them with a context.
The construction suspended from the ceiling and with a lightening from above, floats over the floor allowing light to enter through the cracks with a different intensity.
The game between light and shadow projected by the piece creates a space that extends beyond the sculpture and that Ulrich Wilmes, in his text for the catalogue of Cristina Iglesia’s exhibition at the Ludwig Museum (Cologne), compares with the relation between empty and occupied spaces that we find in the urban landscape, and that allow us to discover in a fortuitous way something unexpected.
Together with the exhibition of this central piece, the show incorporates the dramatization of a new space through the use of serigraphs on silk extended over an aluminium surface, that float on the wall and introduce the viewer into a scenography, and a third piece in which, through a video projection, our glance is substituted by the artist’s glance that leads us through a journey on her work, posing through it a mode of contemplating the world.
Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastian, November 1956) is one of the artists that, in the mid-1980’s lead the international recognition of Spanish art. In 1986 and 1993 she was selected to represent Spain in the Venice Biennial. She received also the 2000 Plastic Arts National Award (Premio Nacional de las Artes Plásticas 2000) and has carried out numerous solo exhibitions in several museums, among which we can highlight: the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003); Museo Serralves, Oporto (2002); or the Carreé d ́Art- Contemporary Art Museum, Nimes (2002), or the Ludwig Museun in Cologne (2.006), among others. Her works can be viewed in the most prestigious art collections, such as: Guggenheim Museum (New York and Bilbao), Tate Gallery (London), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACBA (Barcelona) or the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
© Cristina Iglesias
Suspended Corridor, 2005
Braided, galvanized, and coated iron wire
Variable dimensions
Opening: Tuesday, 30th of January, 2007 at 19.00 hrs. With the artist’s presence.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30 to 14.00 hrs. and 17.00 to 20.30 hrs.
Saturdays by appointment.
Galería Pepe Cobo, together with Galería Elba Benitez simultaneously present two parallel projects by artist Cristina Iglesias, whose work is characterized by her use of diverse materials and artistic disciplines: she uses sculpture, architecture, photography and drawing to recreate invented spaces that have literary reminiscences.
At the Galería Pepe Cobo, the central piece exhibited represents a step further in her continuous development of these facets in the search for a dramatization of space that provokes different ways of viewing things.
The visitor enters into a strange world, which through a rectangular passage, whose walls and ceiling with metal plated cables, envelops and isolates him from the exterior, and transports him to another place in space.
Inspired by science fiction texts that suggest to her notions about new places, Iglesias constructs this structure with a fragment from J. G. Ballard’s novel “The Cristal World”, barely decipherable, originating a mysterious relation with the surface in which they develop and challenging the viewer to pay attention in order to decipher them and provide them with a context.
The construction suspended from the ceiling and with a lightening from above, floats over the floor allowing light to enter through the cracks with a different intensity.
The game between light and shadow projected by the piece creates a space that extends beyond the sculpture and that Ulrich Wilmes, in his text for the catalogue of Cristina Iglesia’s exhibition at the Ludwig Museum (Cologne), compares with the relation between empty and occupied spaces that we find in the urban landscape, and that allow us to discover in a fortuitous way something unexpected.
Together with the exhibition of this central piece, the show incorporates the dramatization of a new space through the use of serigraphs on silk extended over an aluminium surface, that float on the wall and introduce the viewer into a scenography, and a third piece in which, through a video projection, our glance is substituted by the artist’s glance that leads us through a journey on her work, posing through it a mode of contemplating the world.
Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastian, November 1956) is one of the artists that, in the mid-1980’s lead the international recognition of Spanish art. In 1986 and 1993 she was selected to represent Spain in the Venice Biennial. She received also the 2000 Plastic Arts National Award (Premio Nacional de las Artes Plásticas 2000) and has carried out numerous solo exhibitions in several museums, among which we can highlight: the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003); Museo Serralves, Oporto (2002); or the Carreé d ́Art- Contemporary Art Museum, Nimes (2002), or the Ludwig Museun in Cologne (2.006), among others. Her works can be viewed in the most prestigious art collections, such as: Guggenheim Museum (New York and Bilbao), Tate Gallery (London), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), MACBA (Barcelona) or the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
© Cristina Iglesias
Suspended Corridor, 2005
Braided, galvanized, and coated iron wire
Variable dimensions