Miquel Navarro. ‘Ciudad muralla’
The work of Valencian artist Miquel Navarro is inseparable from the images of the city for which he is internationally acclaimed. His atemporal sculptures narrate the universe of relations between life and death, plenitude and emptiness, and the order and chaos of the eternal city. Composed of elements one might liken to large-scale insects, his immense towers and downtowns are reassembled in an aggressive ‘game of scale’ against the fabric of the neighbourhoods at ground level. In every space in which they are placed, they define themselves anew. Created for the 7th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Ciudad Muralla is a frontier city whose fabric rises protectively and whose defining facades erect defensive walls. It is a city of life and death, a city-cemetery whose buildings are tombstones and whose houses might easily be mistaken for coffins, penetrated by a network of canals through which the invisible flow of life runs. Mounted alongside the Biennale, its archetypal and distant forms enter into dialogue with the image of architecture. The exhibition is curated by Professor Manuel Blanco of Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid in conjunction with the 7th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It has been organised in collaboration with the Generlitat de Valencia and made possible by the Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana. A catalogue entitled Miquel Navarro – El mundo de Miquel is available (Fundacion Eduardo Capa – Castillo de Santa Barbara, Alicante, 15 December – 20 February 2000).
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
18 June – 31 July 2000
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