2024-12-22T11:05:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150312031/cristina-iglesias-landscape-and-memory-taps-into-the-forces-lying-just-beneath-our-urban-grid Josh Niland 2022-06-03T16:55:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <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>&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/78e1cd46f2b0db04f08072703a410473.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/78e1cd46f2b0db04f08072703a410473.png?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Cristina Iglesias, Landscape and Memory, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Madison Square Park Conservancy.&nbsp;Photo: Rashmi Gill.</figcaption></figure><p>"Madison Square Park has a rich history, witnessing and participating in several hundred years of New York City&rsquo;s growth and evolution," the Conservancy&rsquo;s Executive Director Keats Myer said of the significance of the site, which before the 19th century had been called Cedar Creek. &ldquo;[Cristina&rsquo;s] commission digs deep into this his...</p>