February 6 – May 13, 2013 /

Sabatini Building, Floor 1

Cristina Iglesias. Sin título (Pasillo Vegetal III), 2008. Private Collection — Cristina Iglesias. *Sin título (Pasillo Vegetal III)*, 2008. Private Collection

Exhibition view. Cristina Iglesias: Metonymy, 2013 — Exhibition view. *Cristina Iglesias: Metonymy*, 2013

Cristina Iglesias has been very interested in redefining sculpture as an expanded field that leads to a questioning of the object in its relationship with space and architecture. Her sculptures integrate with the architecture of the places they occupy, and thus play with the interweaving of reality and appearances.

The exhibition organised by the Museo Reina Sofía, which includes over fifty pieces, is the largest retrospective of this artist that has been held to date, and it covers her earliest work up through her most recent creations. Her artworks generate suggestive fictional worlds and set aside all utilitarian purposes, to become settings conducive to reflective observation. Intersections between the natural world and the cultural world are frequently seen in her work, with shadows, cascades, whirlpools and foliage, in which the idea of refuge is a recurring metaphor.

The artist has displayed unceasing interest in a wide range of materials, such as alabaster, tapestry, glass, resin, aluminium, bronze, iron, cement, wood, concrete… Even water makes an appearance as yet another sculptural element, playing a leading role in some of her public projects, which are discussed in the series of videos entitled Guided Tours. The exhibition is completed by a review of her serigraphs on copper and cloth.