Cristina Iglesias Biography
San Sebastian, Spain, 1956
An established Spanish sculptor and graphic artist, Cristina Iglesias works with industrial materials. She combines concrete, iron and glass, with plant motifs like bamboo or fallen leaves, often covering the exterior of her pieces in foliage.
Her sculpture work is accompanied by large format serigraphs printed on silk or copper. These pieces often appear to be photographs of real installations, though in reality they depict miniature models of her sculptures. Along with her work in three dimensions, these prints create complicated spatial illusions, further blurring the distinctions between natural and constructed space.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2007 - PicassoMio.com - Galeria Pepe Cabo. Madrid, Spain. - Galeria Elba Benitez. Madrid, Spain. - Santander Central Hispano Gallery. Boadilla del Monte, Spain
2006 - 32 Kunstlerinnen aus - 32 FuÃ?ball WM-Teilnehmerlandern. Art Gallery Festl & Maas. Reutlingen, Germany. - Cristina Iglesias. Museum Ludwig. Germany. - Comunicato Stampa. CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia. La Spezia, Italy.
2005 - Las tres dimensiones de El Quijote - El Quijote y el arte contemporaneo español. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia MNCARS. Madrid, Spain. - Cristina Iglesias. Marian Goodman Gallery. New York, USA.
2004 - In ictu oculi. Galeria Pepe Cobo. Seville, Spain. - Close by - Time Space Architecture. Mai 36 Galerie. Zurich, Switzerland.
2003 - Cuatro dimensiones . Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Español. Valladolid, Spain. - Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life. Mori Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan. - Bilbao a Genova - La cultura cambia le citta. Palazzo Ducale. Genova, Italy. - Cristina Iglesias. Irish Museum of Modern Art ? IMMA. Dublin, Ireland. - Group Show. Bernier/Eliades Gallery. Athens, Greece.
2002 - Taipei Biennial 2002 - Great theatre of the world. Taipei Biennial. Taipei, Taiwan. - Frnancesco Petrarca and the Contemporary Landscape. ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. - Photography by Gallery Artists and DYG Projects: Joshua Mosley. Donald Young Gallery. Chicago, USA.
2001 - Rumbos de la Escultura Española del siglo XX. Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. - Obra Grafica. La Caja Negra. Madrid, Spain. - La noche - Imagenes de la noche en el arte español 1981-2001. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente. Segovia, Spain. - Breeze of AIR/ Hortus Conclusus. Witte de With. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2000 - Christina Iglesias. Donald Young Gallery. Chicago, Spain. - Cristina Iglesias. Carre d'art - Musee d'art contemporain de Nimes. Nimes, France.
1999 - Damenwahl. Haus am Waldsee. Berlin, Germany.
1998 - Cristina Iglesias. Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo. Bilbao, Spain.
SELECTED MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ? MACBA. Barcelona, Spain. - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo. Bilbao, Spain. - Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. - Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Español. Valladolid, Spain. - MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY. Los Angeles, USA. - CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain. Burdeos, France.
[The New York Times. ART IN REVIEW; Cristina Iglesias][1]
[Cristina Iglesias at the Guggenheim, Bilbao][2]
Cristina Iglesias at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
[1]: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E3DF1430F930A1575AC 0A9639C8B63
[2]: http://www.guggenheim- bilbao.es/ingles/exposiciones/iglesias/exposicion.htm
