Considered as one of the most influential Spanish artists of the last twenty years in the field of sculpture, internationally recognized, even through several monumental commissions, Cristina Iglesias is still little known to the French public. Therefore, the Grenoble museum exhibition is a great opportunity to discover her work, which is at the same time fully contemporary and deeply rooted in Spanish culture.
Born in 1956 in San Sebastian, Spain, Cristina Iglesias, was unveiled in the European art scene in the mid 1980. From the beginning her works have been based on purely architectural forms that invite to have sensorial experiences. Her works deal mostly with the question of space. Spaces that face each other while interacting in between them. They evoke both, nature and architecture, mixing them often in hybrid constructions, making them out of different materials, bronze, alabaster, concrete and glass. An ambiguous work, where the paradox is mixed with the pretext, is a dizzying exploration of a parallel universe, a dream, where reality never gets out of fantasy, where truth is twofold, light, dark, sweet and cruel.
For the Museum of Grenoble, Cristina Iglesias has designed a path from a set of works made in the last fifteen years, which should help to understand the problems of her work and make the spectator familiar with the peculiar poetry that it emanates. They can discover monumental sculptures that are developed in space through true architectural constructions, works to live so as to see. She deals with the topic of water, including the strange inside fountains Puits and panels with silkscreen on copper and steel, made from treated photographs, that constitute a rereading of her own creations.
These large works will be accompanied by a selection of works on paper that will allow a more intimate approach to her work.
