FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CRISTINA IGLESIAS
NEW SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION WORK 
 

OPENING AT THE DONALD YOUNG GALLERY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 2000
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: 5 - 7:30 PM
 

CHICAGO - As the American representative of Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias, the Donald Young Gallery is pleased to announce this exhibition of new sculpture and installations.  The exhibition will include large scale copper panels silkscreened with images that create the illusion of three-dimensional sculptural and architectural spaces.  The three installations, entitled Vegetation Rooms, contain eccentrically shaped interiors, almost cave-like, with walls of bronze and iron whose rich ornate surfaces are castings of branches, brambles and leaves. These works may be thought of as screens blurring the distinction between inside and out, transparency and opacity, surface and depth.

This will be the first exhibition presented in Chicago (and the U.S.) since the Renaissance Society show in 1997, part of the solo traveling exhibition organized by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum.  After New York and Chicago, the Guggenheim show traveled to the Reina Sofia (Palacio de Velázquez) in Madrid, ending at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1999.  Although Iglesiasí work has been widely shown at the most prestigious venues for contemporary art in Europe, including the Venice Biennale, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Kunsthalle Bern, De Appel Foundation and, most recently, Carré díArt, Musée díart contemporain de Nîmes, her work is only now becoming better known in America.

The exhibition will open to the public with a reception for the artist on Friday, September 15th from 5 to 7:30 PM.  The opening is free. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10-5:30, and Saturdays, 11-5:30.  If you would like more information, please contact Maureen Pskowski at 312.455.0100. 

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