Cristina Iglesias
Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)

Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)

© 2020 Cristina Iglesias

Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
CultureSpanish
Titles
  • Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
Date2020
MediumBronze bas relief pool, mechanics, water, and time
Credit LineMuseum commission funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.691
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Hamill Foundation Plaza
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Description

Cristina Iglesias’s sculptural pool at the Nancy and Rich
Kinder Building entrance invites viewers to consider both the Houston landscape
and the essential nature of our environment. Evoking the rhythms of a tidal
pool, it alternately fills and drains throughout the day, much as this city’s
water table ebbs and flows. The basin is made up of a bronze labyrinth of
roots, as if the nearby live oaks have shaped the pool rather than the hand of
the artist. Thus, for Iglesias, Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots,
the water), becomes “a portal to the underground, to the nature of the Earth,
and to the strata of memory.” 




ProvenanceThe artist; commissioned by the MFAH, 2019.

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Study for Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
Cristina Iglesias
2020
Gouache and wax crayon on inkjet print
2021.170
Study for Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
Cristina Iglesias
2020
Gouache and wax crayon on inkjet print
2021.169
Study for Inner Landscape (the lithosphere, the roots, the water)
Cristina Iglesias
2020
Gouache and wax crayon on inkjet print
2021.168
Overall recto
Carroll Dunham
1992–1993
Drypoint in white on handmade Richard de Bas black wove paper, edition 0/17
2022.232
"Roots"  Brooch #1549
Robin Kranitzky
1990
Copper, brass, micarta, acrylic, polymer clay, postcard fragments, found objects, Mylar, and balsa
2002.3875
Banyan Roots
Brett Weston
1947
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2002.2969
La Monte Young
February 1968
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2018
Woodcut in colors from one block, inked à la poupée in blue, red, pink and orange inks and hand-printed multiple times on Korean Mulberry paper, edition 4/6 (varied)
2018.236
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Ólafur Elíasson
2020
Light installation
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Unknown Indigenous Pacific Islands or First Nations Australian artist
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Wood
91.236
Pair of ear cuffs; overall front
Carina Shoshtary
2023
PLA (bio plastic), barnacles, shells, vintage sweet-water pearls, animal teeth, silver, quartz crystals, found plastic, lacquer, and thread
2023.361.A,.B
Traces
Patrick Carrara
1994
Sand paper, marble dust, and water on wove paper
2001.407