Quick post to show the installation by artist Cristina Iglesias, ‘Forgotten Streams’ which is located at Bloomberg’s new European Headquarters in London. Iglesias talks of "cutting into the urban floor" of water moving slowly and vigorously, on the surface and underground. In 1980, she went to London to further her studies at the Chelsea College of Art. "They find me useful," she says "(Architects) always have problems. And as such, she enjoys working with architects, most recently Norman Foster and Renzo Piano. Her riverbed is composed of sheets of bronze in "patinated gold, black and oxidized green, yellow and blue," she says. She studied Chemical Sciences in her home town (1976-1978) and then after a brief period in Barcelona practising ceramics and drawing, she studied Sculpture at the Chelsea School of Art in London, UK (1980-1982).
Like a nineteenth-century English manor house, there are a series of “scarcely perceptible transitions from interior to exterior” in Iglesias’ work. We enter a space, we pass through it, we stand still, we look around. She works with many materials, including steel, water, glass, bronze, bamboo, straw. It has been a day of enormous technical complexity but also of many emotions.
Her international reputation was established in the 1990s with exhibitions in Berne, Toronto and Pittsburgh. ‘Time’ Magazine described her as a promising young artist for her part in the Venice Biennale 1986." "The Deep Fountain" (2006), which sits outside the The Spanish word for threshold is "umbral," Iglesias tells me.
Cristina Iglesias was born in San Sebastián in November 1956. Born in 1956 in San Sebastian, in the Basque country, Cristina Iglesias has been a major figure of Spanish contemporary sculpture for the past twenty five years. Official website of Cristina Iglesias Studio. Sculptress. The Bloomberg piece is provisionally entitled "Forgotten Streams."
‘Time’ Magazine described her as a promising young artist for her part in the Venice Biennale 1986.. Official information on culture in Spain. On January 20, 2016 she was awarded the Tambor del Oro in San Sebastian. Iglesias and her engineers are refining the water flow -- there are 40 or more hidden water sources.Iglesias's best-known artworks are probably the ones situated at museum entrances. Without any obvious sanctuary, the concierge directs us towards the lifts. Concepts; Concepts; Works; Archive; Books; Contact; Now The revelatory landscape is woven through three different plaza spaces, evoking the Lost Rivers of London, namely the Walbrook.
The project has been complex, requiring a team of hydraulic engineers and foundry workers. He wrote in Cristina Iglesias was generous with her time with me. The two visible bodies of water -- on either side of the building -- will be substantial: a trapezoid measuring 27 by 7 meters (89 by 23 feet) and a distorted rectangle that's 10 by 9 meters (33 by 30 feet).
This work of art is conceived as part of a space that has already been configured, and is highly architectural.The turn of the century brought new winds of modernity. And she's done so thrillingly and inventively all over the world: inside and outside some of the great European and American museums, in the sea off the coast of Mexico, in a Brazilian botanical garden and, closer to home, inside a water tower and a convent in Toledo, Spain. Cristina Iglesias will take part in ‘Innovating Public Art’, a symposium organized by the Madison Square Park Conservancy and School of Visual Arts present on June 21, 2019 which will examine how the commissioning and creation of public art has evolved from being a form for commemoration into a catalyst for conversation, focusing on work that challenges the public and incites debate.