Miquel Navarro at CIFO Art Space

Through May 12, 2013.

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in collaboration with the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) is currently showing Spanish sculptor Miquel Navarro and his exhibition Miquel Navarro. City Metaphors. Selections from the IVAM Collection to the CIFO Art Space. This exhibition is the first initiative of the partnership, which consists on the exchange of exhibitions of their respective collections.

Miquel Navarro. City Metaphors. Selections from the IVAM Collection is characterized by massive sculptures and features over a thousand pieces of different materials such as aluminum, zinc, and wood. His work is based on how cities can suggest different meanings depending on the spectator. Spread out across the gallery floor, the installations consist of sculptures that have been deconstructed in order to resemble a city seen from above. This is Navarro’s first exhibition in South Florida.

Miquel Navarro was born in Valencia and studied in the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia. He started his career in 1972 as a painter and has since worked exclusively in sculpture. Navarro has received many awards such as the Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas, the Alfonso Roig Prize, and the Julio Gonzalez International Prize from IVAM. His also a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid. The work of Miquel Navarro is characterized by his unmistakable representations of cities or “clusters” and constitute a prototype he uses for his sculptural installations when grouping together small pieces, configured as diverse urban buildings, ranging from houses to factories, from ornamental to representational. Their structure is based on what is clearly an imaginary urbanism, a key aspect of Navarro’s works, now part of the IVAM’s permanent collection thanks to his generous donation of 515 pieces. This collection of works reflects his different stages allowing viewers to appreciate his creative style.

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