Artist transforms interior of Guggenheim in New York

As part of the experimental Project Intervals, aimed at offering a space for emerging artists at the Guggenheim in New York, artist Nicola López today transformed the interior of the Guggenheim in New York, with a large site-specific sculptural "collage" environment entitled Landscape X that occupies the floors, walls, and the ceiling that is part of the spiral of the famous museum in Manhattan. "It is a piece that addresses the transformation of both the urban landscape and of the iconic building." Expanding over a large section of the spiral ramp that gives the Guggenheim building its iconic shape, the work contains some parts that are in relief and are, thus, closer to sculpture, and other parts that contain prints on paper, light bulbs and safety fencing nets like the ones used in construction sites. Visitors have no choice but to walk through the work. And that, as López pointed, is something rarely done in a museum. In this sense, the piece also speaks of the physical and psychological barriers that are created between allowed and forbidden spaces-like those that cannot be touched in a museum. Nicola López was born in New Mexico (U.S.) but has studied and worked in several countries including Mexico and Peru. Today she lives in New York where she is presenting this proposal in what is her very first solo show.