Thirteen years after being named Favourite Son of Mislata, his city of birth and residence, the sculptor Miquel Navarro has received the distinction of Adopted Son of Valencia, in an institutional ceremony held on 7 October at the City Hall of the capital of Turia river.
This recognition has been awarded for ‘his national and international relevance and for having contributed to giving the city an image of its own’, taking into account that two of his public sculptures, The Parotet and the Pink Panther (originally, Public Fountain), have become icons for the third largest city in Spain, and that his work has been exhibited in the most important and prestigious museums in the world, such as the Guggenheim in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, or the Lambert Foundation in Brussels’.
The president of the Fundació Miquel Navarro and mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, accompanied the sculptor to this ceremony of ‘Honors and Distinctions’, which was held as part of the celebrations for the 9th of October, the Day of the Comunitat Valenciana.
