Iván Navarro (artist) explained

Iván Navarro
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile

Iván Navarro (born 1972 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean artist who works with light, mirrors, and glowing glass tubes to craft socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations.[1], he lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Navarro was born and raised in Santiago, Chile.[3] The politics and government of his homeland have had a profound impact on his work, both in his choice of media, and in the meaning and thought process he portrays in his neon sculptures and faux-furniture. As he grew up during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Navarro was used to electricity being shut off to keep citizens at home and isolated; “All the pieces that I’ve made make reference to controlling activity, and electricity was a way to control people.”[4]

His father was a left-leaning dean of a university.

Navarro initially intended to study theatrical set design at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, but was not accepted by that department, so he studied art instead.[3] He continued to participate informally in design and lighting for theater,[3] and was awarded a BFA degree in 1995.[3]

Artwork

An example of Navarro's work being steeped in his homeland's history while also speaking to current political debates, is his You Sit, You Die, which consists of a lounge chair built from white fluorescent tubes. "'This is my version of the electric chair', the artist explains. Electricity was one of the tools of torture preferred by the Chilean government, but the piece also has local currency. On the paper seat, he has written the names of every individual executed in Florida by electric chair, to bear witness to the state's record on capital punishment."[5]

Navarro also works with light and infinity mirrors, in which viewers lose themselves in an apparently infinite space, as neon phrases or structures loom out, and suggest what lies beyond. These abyss-like works can link back to Navarro's fear of being abducted as a child. As he navigates his past, the artist readily admits, "There is a certain amount of fear in my pieces".[5] [6] In ‘Criminal Ladder’ (2005), Navarro created a 30-feet-high ladder made with fluorescent light tubes. On the tubes he has written the names of people who committed human rights abuses during the Pinochet time in power.[7] [8]

He is represented by Galerie Daniel Templon.[9]

Selected exhibitions and works

Selected collections

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ivan Navarro . www.huffpost.com . HuffPost . 2019-03-29.
  2. Web site: Kasmin - Iván Navarro. www.kasmingallery.com. 2019-04-11. 2019-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190411040850/https://www.kasmingallery.com/artists/ivn-navarro. dead.
  3. Book: Ivan Navarro : Threshold . 2009 . Charta . New York . 9788881587285.
  4. http://www.artnews.com/2012/01/26/man-of-refraction/ Man of Refraction | ARTnews
  5. News: Egan . Maura . Ivan Navarro . 2019-03-29 . The New York Times . 4 November 2007.
  6. Web site: HISTORY OF LIGHT: Rising Stars, From Ivan Navarro to Katie Paterson BLOUIN ARTINFO . 2013-10-21 . 2019-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190330005834/https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/909260/history-of-light-rising-stars-from-ivan-navarro-to-katie . dead .
  7. Web site: Bailey. Stephanie. 11 May 2018. Iván Navarro. ocula.
  8. Web site: 2015. Artist Biography Iván Navarro. guggenheim exhibitions.
  9. Web site: Galerie Templon - Iván Navarro.
  10. Web site: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires. MACBA. es-es. 2019-04-24.
  11. Web site: [currently installed at Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois This Land is Your Land]. Navarro. Ivan. 2018-07-27. Navy Pier.org.
  12. Web site: Galerie Templon - Artist - Ivan Navarro. www.templon.com. 2019-04-24.
  13. Web site: Public art set to line banks of the Han River. Korea JoongAng Daily. 11 July 2018 . 2019-04-24.
  14. Web site: Galerie Templon - Artist - Ivan Navarro. www.templon.com. 2019-04-24.
  15. Web site: Galerie Templon - Artist - Ivan Navarro. www.templon.com. 2019-04-24.
  16. Web site: Iván Navarro artnet. www.artnet.com. 2019-04-24.
  17. Web site: Untitled (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). art.nelson-atkins.org. en. 2019-02-22.
  18. Web site: Kasmin - SUMMER SCULPTURE EXHIBITION. www.kasmingallery.com. 2019-04-24.
  19. Web site: Kasmin - IVÁN NAVARRO MUTE PARADE. www.kasmingallery.com. 2019-04-24.
  20. Web site: Fungi Museum of Chile & Iván Navarro : A watched apparition | Rotunda Magazine . www.rotundamagazine.com. 2020-02-05 .
  21. Web site: Iván Navarro. 2013-11-15. Madison Square Park Conservancy. en-US. 2019-04-24. 2020-11-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20201124115109/https://www.madisonsquarepark.org/view-do/calendar/mad-sq-art-ivan-navarro. dead.
  22. Web site: Kasmin - IVÁN NAVARRO HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS. www.kasmingallery.com. 2019-04-24.
  23. Web site: Kasmin - IVAN NAVARRO DIE. www.kasmingallery.com. 2019-04-24. 2019-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190411041002/https://www.kasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2009-12-10_ivan-navarro. dead.
  24. Web site: Nowhere Man by Iván Navarro on artnet. www.artnet.com. 2019-04-24.
  25. Book: Navarro, Ivan. Threshold. Charta. 2009. 9788881587285. New York.
  26. Web site: Homeless Lamp, the Juice Sucker. Navarro. Ivan. January 2004. Guggenheim. 2019-04-23.
  27. Web site: Iván Navarro Biography – Iván Navarro on artnet. www.artnet.com. 2019-04-24.
  28. Web site: Ivan Navarro - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery. www.saatchigallery.com. 2019-04-24.
  29. Web site: Iván Navarro in Conversation Ocula. 2019-04-24. ocula.com. en. 2019-04-24.
  30. http://www.bruzz.be/en/video/de-meesterwerken-its-if-twin-towers-were-front-you-depth It's as if the twin towers were in front of you but in depth

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