A Large Abstract Bronze by Miquel Navarro
Width: 88cm (34.6")
Height: 135cm (53.1")
Depth: 91cm (35.8")
Price: £36000.00 | $43933 | €42633
Ref: 12298
Miquel Navarro b.1945 Valencia, Spain. A Large and important Abstract Bronze Sculpture titled 'Simbiosis', signed with monogram and dated '03. The second of 2 cast, this captivating sculpture displays incredible craftsmanship with Navarro's intention to recreate the feel of aged corten steel texture and jointing (which he often works with), yet cast in bronze. The texture and colours are magnificent, now maturing and developing with a quarter century of age and oxidisation. The Artist's interpretation of abstractionism and objects as art form have most notably earned his work the prestige of exhibition at the Guggenheim.
1945
Born on September 29 in Mislata, Valencia.
1964
Beginnings as a painter, especially on paper.
1968
Participates in the collective exhibition Nuestro yo, at the Círculo Universitario in Valencia. Abandons his Fine Arts studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Valencia.
1972
Begins to devote himself primarily to sculpture. Holds his first solo exhibition at the Galería Tassili in Oviedo.
1973
Creates La ciutat 1973-1974, the first of his cities. Exhibits at the Galería Val i 30 in Valencia.
1974
Has his first sculpture exhibition, at the College of Architects in Valencia, under the title La ciutat. Abandons painting to devote himself exclusively to sculpture.
1975
Exhibits an installation of La ciutat at the Galería Buades in Madrid.
1977
Exhibits at the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Seville.
1978
Creates Pyramid 1978-1979. Participates in the collective exhibition Katalanische Funts des 20. Jahrhunderts, at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Berlin.
1980
His work is included in the exhibition Images from Spain, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, an exhibition that will later travel to the United States.
1981
Participates in the IV Coltejer Biennial in Medellín, Colombia.
1982
Presents several sculptural installations along with drawings and watercolors at the Fernando Vijante Gallery in Madrid, under the title Sculptures, watercolors, drawings 1972-1982. Participates in the XIIe Biennale de Paris, Paris.
1984
Creates The City 1984-1985. He creates Font pública, a 23-metre fountain commemorating the bringing of water from the Júcar River to Valencia.
1986
He receives the National Prize for Plastic Arts awarded by the Ministry of Culture. He participates in the XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, within the Spanish pavilion, together with Ferrán García Sevilla, José María Sicilia and Cristina Iglesias. He creates a public fountain in Turis, Valencia.
1987
He receives the Alfons Roig Prize, awarded by the Valencia Provincial Council.
1988
He exhibits a small anthology in Sala Parpalló, Valencia, in the Gamarra y Garrigues gallery in Madrid and in the Joan Prats gallery in Barcelona.
1989
He exhibits at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. On 27 October his Minerva paranoica, 17 metres high, is placed in the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid, opening the exhibition season.
1990
He receives the CEOE Award for the Arts. He installs the sculpture Torre del sonido at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.
1992
He installs the sculpture Fraternitat in Barcelona.
1994
He exhibits at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. He installs the public fountain Boca de luna in Brussels.
1995
He receives the National Award of the Association of Art Critics at ARCO’95, Madrid.
1998
At the Chicago Cultural Center, Miquel’s World is exhibited, an exhibition that is repeated at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico, and the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.
1999
He installs the pieces Casco industrial in Bilbao and Andarín in Gijón.
2000
He receives the Prix International d’Art Contemporain in Monte Carlo. He exhibits at Den Haag Sculptuur 2000, in The Hague. The piece Vigía is installed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
2001
He exhibits individually at the Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover.
2002
His work is presented at the Marlborough Gallery in New York. He participates in the exhibition Art in Spain 1977–2000 held in Moscow. His sculpture La mirada is placed in the square of the Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He receives the Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana for Cultural Merit 2002.
2003
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao acquires the sculpture Ciudad muralla, and presents it in Bilbao. He exhibits Una urbe en tus manos in Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon) and in Taipei, with the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes. He participates in the exhibition La ciudad que nunca existió at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao. The sculpture El parotet is installed in Valencia. Palas fundido is installed in Ceuti, Murcia.
2005
The Burgos Cathedral commissions an altarpiece from him. The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) exhibits more than three hundred of his works from the period 1964–2005. His work is included in the ArquiEscultura exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
2006
The IVAM exhibition is shown at the Caixa Galicia Foundation, Ferrol. He participates in the exhibition Homenaje a Chillida, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. His work is included in the exhibition Tiempos de libertad (1975–2000), in the Sala Kubo of the Kursaal Palace in Donostia-San Sebastián.
2007
His work is shown in the exhibition Ojos de Mar at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia and in the exhibition Dibujados at the Galería Elvira González, Madrid. 08
He has a solo exhibition at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, under the title Voyage dans la ville «Sous la lune II». The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens the exhibition Laboratorios. Perspectives on the permanent collection: Miquel Navarro. He participates in the exhibition World Record: Art & Sport at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and in the exhibition Colección Josep Suñol. Segunda Parte 1970–2001 at the Fundació Suñol, Barcelona. 2009
His work is part of the exhibition La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) in Valencia.
2010
The piece L’Almassil is installed in the Plaza Mayor of Mislata, Valencia. His work is present in the collective exhibition of painting and sculpture aimed at raising funds for UNICEF held at the Palau de la Música, Valencia. He exhibits with other artists at The International 3, Manchester, and at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia.
2011
The exhibition Figures for the Battle is exhibited outside the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela. He presents, together with the journalist Rafa Marí, the artistic project 12 cities of the world at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia. He is named favourite son of Mislata, Valencia.
2012
His work Cabeza Pensante is temporarily installed in Plaza Patriarca, Valencia.
Ciudad y Cuerpo is inaugurated at the Galería Capa in Madrid. He exhibits Beneath the Moon II: Journey through the City at the San Diego Museum of Art, USA.
2013
His work Cabeza Pensante is temporarily installed in Plaza Patriarca, Valencia.
Ciudad y Cuerpo opens at the Galería Capa in Madrid.
He exhibits Beneath the Moon II: Journey through the City at the San Diego Museum of Art, USA.
2014
The Fernández-Braso gallery in Madrid organizes Miquel Navarro. Monuments and crowds.
2016
The first edition of the Mislata Miquel Navarro Biennial is held.
2017
The exhibition Miquel Navarro. Imaginary archaeologies opens, Kubo Aretoa Hall, Donostia/San Sebastián.
2018
The exhibition Fluidos is presented at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia.
