FIRST EXHIBITION OF MIQUEL NAVARRO AFTER THAT UNESCO HAS SELECTED THE WORK “CITY WATCH” FOR ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION. THE SAMPLE CONTAINS OBJECTS AND SCULPTURES FROM 1973 TO 2021, INCLUDING THE LAST FOUR SCULPTURES BY THE AUTHOR.
Second exhibition in the gallery Fernández-Braso of Miquel Navarro (Mislata, Valencia, 1945) representative of the “New Spanish Sculpture” and author of exhibitions in museums and art centers such as the Guggenheim New York and Bilbao, the Reina Sofia Museum, Centre Pompidou Paris, the IVAM in Valencia or MACBA Barcelona. Miquel Navarro received the National Prize of Plastic Arts in 1986. That same year he was included in the exhibition “Three Spanish Artists” (Miquel Navarro, José María Sicilia, Susana Solano), held at the Serpentine Gallery, London. A member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando since 2009.
The exhibition “Dolmen. Archaeology of pleasure and sorrow” will be inaugurated, with the presence of the artist, the next Thursday, September 9, and is part of the OPENING 2021, an annual event organized by Art Madrid, the association of art galleries in Madrid. The exhibition can be visited until October 30.
Sergio Rubira, curator and art critic, has written the text of the catalogue of the exhibition. “Write about the collection of another, in some way, is writing a biography, the memoirs of another, because each one of the objects is associated with a particular time and causes a memory: the immediate, when and how you added the object to the collection, and which may be far away, what it means and why it got there. It is also desnudarle, leave exposed to their obsessions, open those objects to the interpretation through the eyes, sometimes perverse, that just came out, as did the professor Freud when he left to enter their patients in his private cabinet of archaeologist”.
The work of Miquel Navarro is a compendium and hybridization of cultures –Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, urban utopias of the Renaissance–; avant – garde, Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, Constructivism, Surrealism–; interests related to architecture, urban planning, machinery, construction, industrial and agricultural characteristic of the mediterranean culture and the choice of natural materials and industrial such as mud, clay, ceramics, aluminum, iron or zinc. The result is a symbiosis of the formal and emotional evocative of desires, dreams, sex, fear, sadness, pleasure, power ...