Cristina Iglesias

Working towards the melding of her artistic work and the discipline of architecture, Cristina Iglesias has long been preoccupied with exploring notions of space and of a space within a space. The sheer scale of her sculptures invites viewers to walk around and occasionally through her pieces. On a more microscopic level, Iglesias has remained fascinated by details, with data that deliberately distracts or skews the perception of abstract forms. Rich surfaces, such as cast impressions of local and exotic flora, become progressively consuming as the viewer approaches them. This publication is the first mongraph on the artist, and includes a consideration of work done in collaboration with architects Abalos & Herreros and Paul Robbrech. 186 illustrations

Language and architecture are concepts that have defined, from the very beginning, Cristina Iglesias'' artistic trajectory. This Spanish artist has shown her work in the most important of European museums and has worked with prominent architects such as Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem and Ábalos & Herreros. These concepts however are never employed in a direct and obvious manner but in a veiled way, like the images reflected on the metal surface of some of her sculptural works and silkscreen prints, or the texts that are concealed in her lattices, shaping a place yet at the same time evincing the impossibility of its location and interpretation.This is the first monograph to be published on her work as a whole, and includes valuable essays by Richard Etlin, Michael Newman and Michael Tarantino, together with an extensive interview between Iglesias and Gloria Moure, revealing a number of the keys to her creative process.