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Yesterday, the ‘In short, Miquel Navarro’ film forum series began in Mislata, organised by the Miquel Navarro Foundation in collaboration with Mislata City Council, as a result of an agreement between the two institutions.

The cycle, which will end on 5 December, consists of four sessions in which short films made by Navarro are screened, followed by a discussion with the author, whose audiovisual work is less known to the general public, although it includes an important part of his plastic work. 

The aim of this activity is to promote and raise awareness of the life and work of Miquel Navarro among the different associations and educational groups in the town of Mislata, the artist’s home town and where his house-workshop is located.

The titles chosen for this cycle are ‘Strong as opium’, ‘Human territory’, ‘Eyes’ and ‘Where is my little dog?

The first session, aimed at the Espai Sènior La Fàbrica, was held at the Centre Sociocultural la Fábrica. The following screenings will be held for the Asociación de Mayores Voluntarios de Mislata, the Espai Sénior del Sud and the Espai Sénior El Quint.

On 29 October, the installation of three representative cities by Miquel Navarro was inaugurated at Mobility City in Zaragoza: “City 84-85”, from Miquel Navarro Foundation, “A city in your hands” (1998), from the Generalitat Valenciana, and “Fluid in the city” (2003), which comes from the IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern).

This installation forms part of the exhibition ‘Metropolis lunar’, curated by the art historian and patron of the Fundació Lola Durán and which has a double venue in the Fundación Ibercaja: the Museo Goya, where, from 3 October, almost forty pieces by the most universal artist of Mislata are on display; and the aforementioned building in the Aragonese capital, which was designed by the prestigious Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid for the International Exposition Zaragoza 2008. 

Under the metallic grids of the so-called ‘Zaha Hadid Bridge’, whose innovative steel and fibreglass structure is shaped like a gladiolus stretched over the river Ebro, visitors will be able to enjoy the three sculptural landscapes by Miquel Navarro, in a perfect fusion of art and avant-garde architecture, until 2 March 2025.

In addition, children will have the opportunity to interact with Navarro’s art, as one of the cities on display, ‘A city in your hands’, which is continually touring the world, has a playful character and its design allows children visiting the exhibition to play and interact with it to create their own city and thus modify the artist’s initial proposal. 

Photo: Ibercaja Foundation