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As a whole, the exhibition, which includes some unpublished pieces, is a reflection on the existence of memory and the passing of time.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
