![]() (Right) Fragment of the “Sanitary and Topological Map of the City and Island of New York” by the engineer Egbert L. (Left) Cristina Iglesias, preliminary sketch for Landscape and Memory (2022) in Madison Square Park, 2020. The installation conjures the existence of unseen ancient streams that continue to run beneath modern cities, connecting the urban present with its primordial past, and connecting us to abstract ideas of what lies beneath us. A subtle stream of water continuously trails across the sculptures’ hollowed surfaces, evoking the constancy of water slowly eroding rocky surfaces across millennia. Image from the gallery at Madison Square Parkįor Landscape and Memory, Iglesias digs deep into the park’s lawns to install five subterranean bronze sculptures carved with intricately patterned bas-reliefs. “Visitors who encounter the work will do so almost as citizen archaeologists witnessing a living artifact from a centuries-old New York City, untouched by the present-day urban landscape.” Cristina Iglesias. With Landscape and Memory, Iglesias brings a new level of exploration to our commissioning program, creating sculptural cracks in the lawns that reveal an unseen element of the park’s natural history,” said Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy. “Cristina Iglesias is renowned for sculpture and installation that engage closely with the spatial, cultural, and historical qualities of the spaces where they’re sited. ![]() Cristina Iglesias will also serve as the keynote speaker for the Conservancy’s annual public art symposium, held this year on Friday, June 3, which will investigate the role of public art in shedding new light on buried histories, both metaphorically and physically. Presented within and responding to the work, these include a summer music series curated with Carnegie Hall as well as performance programming organized in conjunction with The Kitchen. On view from June 1 through December 4, 2022, Landscape and Memory will be complemented by a slate of interdisciplinary public programs, free and open to the public. Building on Iglesias’ practice of unearthing the forgotten and excavating natural history, Landscape and Memory resurfaces in the imaginations of contemporary viewers the now-invisible force of this ancient waterway. Landscape and Memory places five bronze sculptural pools, flowing with water, into Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek coursed across the land where the park stands today. ![]() Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias invites the public to consider the forgotten terrains and geographic history of New York City in a new public art installation opening this June, her first major temporary public art project in the United States. Landscape and memory Installation 1 ‘Landscape and Memory’ (2022) installation in progress in Madison Square Park with Cristina Iglesias.
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