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Miquel Navarro Foundation is visited by the first vice-president of Diputació de València

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The first vice-president of the Diputació de València, Natalia Enguix, visited yesterday the facilities of the Miquel Navarro Foundation´s Workshop House in Mislata, after its recent refurbishment thanks to the financial support of the provincial council. 

Accompanied by the mayor of Mislata and president of the Foundation, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, the sculptor Miquel Navarro himself and members of the Foundation’s board of trustees, Enguix toured the different spaces that will soon be opened to the public as a museum-workshop.

During the visit, the vice-president had the opportunity to see first-hand the rooms that will house exhibitions of the artist’s work and that of other contemporary creators, as well as becoming the venue for artistic and cultural activities organised by the foundation itself.

‘Today, together with a reference and artist like Miquel Navarro, we seal a pact to make the Foundation shine in all its splendour’, wrote Natalia Enguix in the Mislata Book of Honour, reaffirming her commitment to the cultural development of the city.

For his part, Mayor Carlos Fernández Bielsa expressed his gratitude to the provincial council for ‘this involvement in making it possible for us to rehabilitate these important infrastructures so that in a very short time they can be opened to the public and so that Mislateros and Mislateras and people from abroad can get to know the life and work of Miquel Navarro’. 

‘For Mislata, Miquel is our most international artist. The fact that he has a foundation to show his life and work is very important for our city’, recalled Fernández Bielsa, who presented the vice-president of the Diputació with a silkscreen print by Miquel Navarro as a protocolary gift from the City Council.

Diputació de València has already allocated 676,000 euros to the renovation of the Workshop House, in addition to a contribution of 40,000 euros for its operation. In this new legislature, it is planned to complete the works with an additional investment of 100,000 euros, as well as to support the activity of the Foundation with 75,000 euros more.

Visibly moved, Miquel Navarro expressed his gratitude for the institutional support received: ‘I am happy, of course. The tenderness in my heart moves me’. His Workshop House is thus emerging as a new cultural centre of reference in the province, where heritage, art and the living memory of one of the most important sculptors on the contemporary Spanish scene come together.

Images: Mislata City Council

The work on the Miquel Navarro Foundation’s Workshop House in Mislata reaches its final stage

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This month, work is nearing completion on the adaptation of the Mislata facilities that until now have been the main working space of the sculptor Miquel Navarro and which will soon become the Miquel Navarro Foundation’s Workshop House.

In addition to a sculpture workshop, this cultural centre will house temporary exhibitions, as well as educational activities and multidisciplinary proposals for all audiences.

Final obra de rehabilitación de planta superior en la Casa Taller de la Fundació Miquel Navarro

The refurbishment project, financed by Diputación de Valencia with a budget of 676,000 euros, has been designed by the Valencian studio Nebot Arquitectos and is being carried out by the company IN-EX construcción.

Final obra de rehabilitación de planta inferior en la Casa Taller de la Fundació Miquel Navarro

The building, which was originally a former drugstore warehouse, has a usable area of 895.12 m² distributed over two floors, including entrances, showrooms, offices, storage and toilets.

The exhibition ‘Lunar Metropolis’ brings together almost forty works by Miquel Navarro at the Goya Museum in Zaragoza

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Almost forty works by Miquel Navarro, some of which are part of the heritage of the Fundació Miquel Navarro of the Valencian Community, make up the exhibition ‘Lunar Metropolis’, which opened yesterday at the Goya Museum in Zaragoza and which can be visited until 22 December.

The symbolic duality between the spiritual and the earthly is the focus of this exhibition, which explores Navarro’s most personal universe since the 70s, through towers, moons, references to ancient cultures and universal concepts such as power, fragility and mystery.

In this sense, the curator of ‘Lunar Metropolis’, Lola Durán, highlights the presence of the moon as a ‘metaphor of the unattainable that illuminates the shadows of existence’.

As a whole, the exhibition, which includes some unpublished pieces, is a reflection on the existence of memory and the passing of time. It is also a reflection of the duality between the urban and the rural in Miquel Navarro’s life: from his childhood in Mislata, a town then surrounded by orchards, to the clearer influences of industrial growth with factories and trains. 

These contrasts in Navarro’s work ‘become dialogues between the intimate and the monumental, the ancestral and the contemporary, a dialogue between what is shown and what is hidden, and also between the earthly and the spiritual’.

The exhibition at the Goya Museum will be complemented by the exhibition of three mini-cities in the Mobility City space of the Ibercaja Foundation.

Photo: Goya Museum

Mislata City Council and Miquel Navarro Foundation sign an agreement to promote culture and art in the city

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Mislata Town Council continues to collaborate with Miquel Navarro Foundation of Comunitat Valenciana, with the aim of promoting knowledge and research in the cultural field, as well as to promote artistic events and activities in the sculptor’s hometown, where he currently lives and works.

Both entities have today signed a collaboration agreement whereby the council allocates a grant of 30,000 euros to the foundation, both for its maintenance costs and for carrying out a series of activities aimed at promoting and publicising the life and work of Miquel Navarro to the different associations and educational groups in Mislata.

These activities include the possibility of a series of guided tours of the renovation work and the adaptation of the headquarters of the Fundació Miquel Navarro, a monitored tour of the public sculptures that the artist has installed in the municipality, and a projection-colloquium of the artist’s audiovisual production in any municipal facility intended for cultural use.

In addition, the foundation undertakes to temporarily lend works by Miquel Navarro to those events organised by Mislata Town Council related to the Visual Arts, in which their exhibition is considered appropriate.

Works progress on adapting Miquel Navarro’s workshop for the future museum in Mislata

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Last March, works began on the adaptation of the sculptor Miquel Navarro´s workshop in Mislata, in order to house the centre-foundation where his artistic legacy will be exhibited and disseminated.

The architectural project has been designed by the Valencian studio Nebot Arquitectos and the execution is being carried out in coordination with the Board of the Miquel Navarro Foundation and the authors of the Museum Plan, David Gimilio Sanz and Jaume Penalba Alarcón.


The works, financed by Diputación de Valencia with a grant of 676,000 euros, will continue throughout the summer and are scheduled for completion in October.

Diputación de Valencia will finance the restoration of the Miquel Navarro Foundation’s workshop house

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On 6 July, the Governing Board of the Diputación de Valencia approved the award of a direct grant to the Fundació Miquel Navarro for the restoration of the workshop house in Mislata which, until now, had been the sculptor’s workspace.

This aid, amounting to 676,000 euros, is crucial to advance in our project to create a multi-purpose cultural centre that will preserve a large part of Miquel Navarro’s artistic legacy and, at the same time, contribute to disseminating his figure and promoting knowledge of art through different activities open to the public.

The foundation’s board of trustees will soon be deciding on the commissioning of the basic project, execution and project management, with the aim of starting work between the end of this year and the beginning of 2024.