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The cycle of guided visits to Miquel Navarro’s workshop in Mislata, which began on November 23, continues this month.

The group of neighbors received today by the sculptor to show them his work space and part of his internationally recognized work come from the plastic arts workshops of the Department of Culture of the Mislata City Council.

This council collaborates with the Fundació Miquel Navarro in the organization of the visits, which not only contributes to fulfilling the objective of promoting knowledge of the work and figure of the famous mislatero artist, but also promotes citizen participation in the foundation project.

Precisely, Miquel Navarro’s workshop, located in the old town of Mislata, will soon be adapted to become a museum, where the more than 500 works donated by the artist to his foundation will be exhibited and various related educational and educational activities will be scheduled. with artistic creation.

The Fundació Miquel Navarro of the Valencian Community has started activities for the public today with the first of a series of guided tours of the sculptor’s workshop, which will take place during these last months of the year.

The objective of these visits, organized by the foundation in collaboration with the Mislata City Council, is that the residents of the town can see the facilities in the Morería neighborhood where its most universal artist works and which will soon be adapted to become a museum .

In this spacious warehouse, which was formerly a drugstore warehouse with art deco reminiscences and which houses a Civil War shelter in its basement, there is currently part of the work donated by Miquel Navarro to the foundation he created in 2020, as well as various tools that the artist usually uses in his creative processes.

The group that has started this cycle of visits is made up of older people from the painting and drawing workshop of the El Sur de Mislata Municipal Home, who have been accompanied on the educational tour by Miquel Navarro himself and by the vice mayor of Mislata and member of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, María Luisa Martínez Mora.

(11-14-2023) The Valencian town of Mislata, Miquel Navarro’s hometown, yesterday hosted the filming of the short documentary film “Fundació Miquel Navarro: origin and destiny of a universal work.”

This audiovisual piece, based on the idea of ​​the local roots of a work that has traveled halfway around the world, will serve as a public presentation letter for the foundation’s project, which was created in 2020 to protect the artistic heritage of Miquel Navarro and promote knowledge of his figure and his work, which has helped to internationalize the culture of the Valencian Community.

The Valencian production company NoSoloClips was in charge of the filming, which includes the testimonies of Miquel Navarro himself and Carlos Fernández Bielsa, president of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees in his capacity as mayor of Mislata.

The locations chosen were the sculptor’s workshop in the Morería neighborhood, the Mislata City Council facilities in the La Fábrica complex and different public spaces in the municipality that have some monumental work by Miquel Navarro, such as “L’Almassil” or “Walker”.

The same production company will carry out the final montage, which can be seen soon on the foundation’s website fundaciomiquelnavarro.es.

This week, the Miquel Navarro Foundation opened its social profiles on LinkedIn , Instagram and Facebook .

Through these social networks, the foundation aims to reach all segments of its target audience by creating a community made up, mainly, of people from inside and outside the Valencian Community who are interested in the world of art and culture, as well as as well as by professionals in the sector.

Apart from reporting on the progress of the Fundació Miquel Navarro project and its activities, the content that will be published in these profiles aims to promote knowledge of the extensive work and the figure of the Mislatero sculptor – National Prize for Plastic Arts – and, at the same time, carry out pedagogical work around contemporary art.