Miquel Navarro

MIQUEL NAVARRO, (Mislata, Valencia, 1945).
Untitled, 1999.
Silkscreen on paper. Exemplary H.C, XXIII/XXV.
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil.
Measurements: 65 x 50 cm.
Painter and sculptor, Miquel Navarro was trained 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 rural to urban and from environmental to 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.