Yolanda del Riego
Artist/Printmaker
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Arde el Windsor Suite (2006)

Arde el Windsor Suite (2006)

[Windsor Burning Suite]

On February 12, 2005, the Windsor Tower in Madrid was gutted by a fire. Yolanda del Riego, who lived within the evacuation zone, took a few snapshots of the fire that night from which she created numerous digital works.

Fourteen of those works make up the Windsor Burning Suite, which consists of 19 signed and numbered porfolios containing the fourteen prints and presented in an acrylic glass box with the author's initials (YR) engraved on the cover.

First exhibited in November 2006 at a solo exhibition in Madrid titled Welcome! (Galería Rafael García), the suite was purchased by the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Madrid.

From the exhibition catalog essay:

... these two series of digital prints by Yolanda del Riego, whose technical excellence is seductive in everything, from the variations of its color-light and its textures -in honeycomb cells, in lace fabric, in "cotton candy" effects "... to the achievements of its double strategy of" adding and removing "elements, and its ability to turn the pictorial space into an authentic scenario of representation of the accidental event and the dismantling process. Virtual or real, pictorial or digital, empty or architectural ..., the space and its awareness are reaffirmed here as the cardinal challenges that remain in the art of painting.

—José Marín Medina, Catalog essay from the exhibition Welcome! [English translation]

Arde el Windsor Suite (2006)
“Windsor Ascua” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Windsor Embers”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Febrero tiene mucho que ver” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“ February Has a Lot to See ”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Encaje de humo” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Lace of Smoke”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Fuego en la planta 14” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Fire on the 14th Floor”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Red and Blue” , from the Windsor Burning suite [“Rojo y azul”, de la suite Arde el Windsor .]
“Quedan muchas incógnitas” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“There Are Still Many Unknowns”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Incógnitas” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Unknowns”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Cenizas” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Ashes”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Cielo ocre” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Ocher Sky”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Chinese Scroll” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Derrumbe” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Collapse”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Fuego en la planta 14” variación II, de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Fire on the 14th Floor” variation II, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“13 de febrero” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“February 13”, from the Windsor Burning suite]
“Windsor mágico” , de la suite Arde el Windsor . [“Magical Windsor”, from the Windsor Burning suite]