Ivan Navarro
dal 17/11/2006 al 9/1/2007
Segnalato da
17/11/2006
Ivan Navarro
Roebling Hall, New York
Concentration Camp. Navarro's luminescent light based sculptures work in contrast to their darker themes of control & fear. Using lighting & industrial materials, he builds pieces that tell a story both visually and politically.
Concentration Camp
Roebling Hall is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by Ivan Navarro.
Titled, "Concentration Camp," Navarro's luminescent light based sculptures work in
contrast to their darker themes of control & fear. Using lighting & industrial
materials, Navarro builds pieces that tell a story both visually and politically.
In the current installation Navarro uses his characteristic fluorescent and neon
sculptures to order the gallery into three major parts, all of which reflect
different aspects of power and its effects. The first work in the gallery, an
enveloping drawing in light, snakes around the gallery vestibule and hallways like a
glowing frieze, describing a train of dominant and subservient figures. The
gallery's main space is entirely darkened, excepting for the light emitted by four
black light neon sculptures, which describe alternately, a chandelier, a basketball
hoop, and two chairs of high design. Illustrating the breadth of Navarro's practice,
the exhibition's final work, "Flashlight," introduces yet another aspect of this
artist's work: video, along with a sculpture on wheels, which together relate a tale
of transience and loss.
"Navarro's dazzling sculptural forms suggest utopian longings of Modernist design.
But his electrified objects also hint at elements of a bad dream or instruments of
torture, as their seductively glowing light surges with undercurrents of darkness."*
Ivan Navarro has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the US in, among other
venues, the Whitney Museum, Witte de With-Rotterdam, Project Space 176-London, the
Busan Biennale in Korea, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo (Spain).
"Artificial Light," opened this Fall at the VCUarts Anderson Gallery in conjunction
with Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art
at the Goldman Warehouse in Miami, from December 7, 2006, thru February 18, 2007,
and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, from September 19 thru January
11, 2007.
*From "Artificial Light," by John B. Ravenal, Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art,
September 2006
Roebling Hall
390 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn - New York