Paloma Navares Explained

Paloma Navares (born 1947) is an interdisciplinary Spanish artist who combines sculpture, photography, video and audio in her installations.[1] Recurring themes in her work are the feminine condition, the historical representation of women through art, the critical analysis of the canon, madness, beauty and aging.[2] [3]

Biography

Navares was born in Burgos, Spain.[1] She lives and works in Madrid and Alicante in Spain.

In 1985-1986 she created Seravan; A Song for a Fallen Tree and Origin and Moonlit Nights which were mainly exhibited in art centers and museums in Europe. In 1997-98 she did the scenery design for The House of Forgetfulness and Bodies of Shadow and Light with the company Lanonima Imperial. In 2004 she did a scenery design project for the opera Juana by Enric Palomar, first performed in 2005 at the Opera House in Halle. Since she began her art career in 1979 she has exhibited in more than one hundred venues around the world and her work has been seen in fairs and art biennials.

In 2018 Paloma Navares was awarded the MAV Price (Women in the Visual Arts) recognizing her contributions in a long career.[4]

In 2024, the ENAIRE Foundation awarded her with the Trayectoria Prize, “for a life dedicated to artistic creation, exploring the limits of a theme that, in a perceptive way at the beginning and decisively later, becomes a mantra without seeking it: the feminine universe.” The ENAIRE Foundation also organized a solo retrospective exhibition of her work at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Exposición - Paloma Navares. From the garden of memory.
  2. Web site: Thyssen Museum presents the painting of Paloma Navares. 2018-03-08.
  3. Web site: How the Female Artists of Madrid Are Finally Getting Their Due.
  4. https://mav.org.es/premios-vii-edicion-de-los-premios-mav-visibles/
  5. https://fundacionenaire.es/actividad/exposicion-premio-trayectoria-2024/