Archinect - News2024-05-21T06:12:28-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150312031/cristina-iglesias-landscape-and-memory-taps-into-the-forces-lying-just-beneath-our-urban-grid
Cristina Iglesias’ Landscape and Memory taps into the forces lying just beneath our urban grid Josh Niland2022-06-03T16:55:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0f/0fbf634876248f831c78cedfacdb204a.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1534365/madison-square-park" target="_blank">Madison Square Park Conservancy</a>’s second 2022 commission has opened with a new installation by Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias called <em>Landscape and Memory</em>.</p>
<p>In a harken back to the time when the eastern edge of Manhattan island was dominated by natural features like <a href="https://www.tenement.org/blog/what-lies-beneath-a-history-of-collect-pond/" target="_blank">Collect Pond</a> and other wetlands, Iglesias’ exhibition hinges on the arrangement of five subterranean bronze sculptures connected to a flowing stream whose presence is meant as a reminder of the unchanged ancient systems lying beneath the feet of 8 million New Yorkers. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/78e1cd46f2b0db04f08072703a410473.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/78e1cd46f2b0db04f08072703a410473.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Cristina Iglesias, Landscape and Memory, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photo: Rashmi Gill.</figcaption></figure><p>"Madison Square Park has a rich history, witnessing and participating in several hundred years of New York City’s growth and evolution," the Conservancy’s Executive Director Keats Myer said of the significance of the site, which before the 19th century had been called Cedar Creek. “[Cristina’s] commission digs deep into this his...</p>