A group of eighteen people, including students and teachers, from the Mislata Adult Education School visited the Miquel Navarro Foundation’s House-Workshop, in an activity organised in collaboration with Mislata Town Council.
The visit was guided by Miquel Navarro himself, who shared his experiences and artistic reflections during a tour of the facilities and during the screening of one of the films made by the Mislata sculptor.
The councillor for Culture and the Elderly, Pepi Luján, also accompanied the group during the meeting, which generated a close dialogue between generations, art and experience.
Questions arose spontaneously: from the inspiration for the works to the technical details of the creative process, especially about the monumental sculptures such as Warriors for the battle or Placón, both made of marine aluminium and weighing several tons.
‘How can you melt this big thing?’ asked one of the attendees, to which the artist replied simply: ‘It’s not melted, it’s carved’.
Beyond the artistic content, the day was a shared learning experience and a discovery for these residents of Mislata, who were amazed that their municipality has an artistic space of this magnitude: ‘Everyone should know about this’, they said on several occasions.
With guided tours like this one, the Fundació Miquel Navarro, together with Mislata City Council, reaffirms its commitment to artistic education, the transmission of cultural heritage and the opening of its spaces to different audiences, making art a place of encounter, discovery and dialogue.
