Cristina Iglesias

CHICAGO - As the American representative of Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias, the Donald Young Gallery is pleased to announce this exhibition of new sculpture and installations. The exhibition will include large scale copper panels silkscreened with images that create the illusion of three-dimensional sculptural and architectural spaces. The three installations, entitled Vegetation Rooms, contain eccentrically shaped interiors, almost cave-like, with walls of bronze and iron whose rich ornate surfaces are castings of branches, brambles and leaves. These works may be thought of as screens blurring the distinction between inside and out, transparency and opacity, surface and depth.

This will be the first exhibition presented in Chicago (and the U.S.) since the Renaissance Society show in 1997, part of the solo traveling exhibition organized by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. After New York and Chicago, the Guggenheim show traveled to the Reina Sofia (Palacio de Velázquez) in Madrid, ending at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1999. Although Iglesiasí work has been widely shown at the most prestigious venues for contemporary art in Europe, including the Venice Biennale, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Kunsthalle Bern, De Appel Foundation and, most recently, Carré díArt, Musée díart contemporain de Nîmes, her work is only now becoming better known in America.

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Cristina Iglesias
NEW SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION WORK