Cristina Iglesias - Hatje Cantz

An open book spread. On the left is a dramatic, moody photograph of a large wave crashing against a rocky island topped with a single white house. On the right is the book's table of contents, listing chapter titles, page numbers, and authors.

A two-page book layout. The left page displays a photograph of a tree-covered island surrounded by water on a foggy, grey day. The right page contains text, headed by the title A Place of Unrest.

A composite image on a white background, showing four photographs of a rocky shoreline. On the left, three small, identical vertical images are arranged in a row, showing close-ups of beige and reddish rocks. To the right is a single large, square image of a textured rock face with green and red bands of color above rocks emerging from dark water.

A diptych-style image. The left panel is a wide shot of a steep, layered rock cliff with a wooden fence along the top. The right side features a triptych of smaller images: two showing the mossy, rocky shoreline below, and a central one of a woman with long hair leaning on the fence and looking down.

A collage-style image of a coastal scene. The main, larger image on the right shows several seagulls perched on a craggy, honeycombed rock formation by the sea, with another gull blurred in flight. On the left, a triptych of three vertical panels shows close-up details of the eroded rock and the birds.

A diptych showing close-up views of a bronze-colored abstract sculpture with water flowing around it. The metallic surface has a porous, organic texture with many smooth, irregular holes, resembling a honeycomb or skeletal structure. The left panel shows water cascading down, while the right panel captures the foamy, rushing water swirling around jagged formations.

A triptych of photographs showing an overhead view of a stream flowing through a cave. The brown, wet rocks are highly eroded into a complex, porous, and lattice-like pattern. The largest image is on the left, with two smaller, similar images side-by-side on the right.

A two-page spread from a book. On the left, a vertical photograph shows beams of sunlight streaming down into a dark, rocky cave from an opening in the ceiling. A caption identifies it as Blombos cave, South Africa. On the right is a page of text with the headline Delving into our Origins by Carlos Duarte.

Cristina Iglesias

Hondalea

€ 44.00

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By (artist): Cristina Iglesias

Edited by: James Lingwood

February 2023, 184 Pages, 150 Photos

Hardcover

228mm x 285mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5462-0

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
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| A unique sculptural Intervention

The lighthouse on the island of Santa Clara in Donostia / San Sebastián stood empty for many years until Cristina Iglesias transformed it into a breath-taking sculptural work that opened to the public in 2021. Inside the restored lighthouse, visitors look down as water rises up, as if from the sea below, surging through forms cast in bronze to resemble the distinctive geology of the Basque Coast, before pooling and trickling away. Featuring extensive photographs of a journey by boat from the city to the island and into the lighthouse, together with writings by art historians, geologists and scientists, Cristina Iglesias - Hondalea documents a remarkable work realized by one of the world's leading sculptors in the city where she was born.

This book is also available in English/Spanish.

Spanish artist CRISTINA IGLESIAS (*1956) creates profound spaces of the imagination. Renowned for her sculptures woven, cast or constructed from metal, wood and alabaster, Iglesias also creates outdoor structures and installations using water. Her work can be found in inner cities or remote islands, as a site of pilgrimage for humans or as a habitat for animals.

»Following the monograph Liquid Sculpture (2021, Hatje Cantz), Iglesias’s new title documents the practice of water-crossing, featuring photographs of boat journeys to the island, alongside writings by art historians and scientists.«

Chloe Elliott

Aesthetica Magazine