Miquel Navarro

MIQUEL NAVARRO (Mislata, Valencia, 1945).
"Fossil III", 1994.
Pencil and charcoal.
Presents informative label of the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 67 x 49 cm; 95 x 71 cm (frame).
Painter and sculptor, Miquel Navarro is today considered one of the Spanish artists of greater international projection, as well as one of the most representative of the new Spanish sculpture of the seventies and eighties, oriented especially to the expanded space of the installations, as well as to the interventions on the nature and the actions on the body. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia and began his career in the early sixties, exhibiting in 1973 his first "Ciutat", in clay, a concept of prototypical work that integrates sets of small pieces configured as structures and various constructions ranging from the rural to the urban and from the environmental to the industrial. Later he began to use iron, as it allowed him to make larger and more resistant sculptures. In 1980 he made the international leap with his first exhibition in New York (Guggenheim Museum), to be followed by others in Berlin, California, Mexico, Florence, etc. In 1986 he was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts, and in 2008 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He has monumental sculptures in several Spanish cities and abroad, and is represented in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid, the Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MACBA in Barcelona, the IVAM in Valencia, the Mie in Japan and the Wurth Künzelsau in Germany, among other public and private collections.