Art And Space Iván Navarro (born 1972 in Santiago, Chile) is an artist who works with light, mirrors, and neon to craft socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations. Navarro's sculptures seem to create space where in reality there is none. They suggest infinity through a simple illusion constructed out of judiciously placed lights and mirrors. Despite their use of mass-made fluorescent tubes — a material widely used by Minimal artists in the 1960s — and their industrial aesthetic, they have a sublime quality, which is more commonly attributed to natural phenomena. For all their beauty, these sculptures can also be fearsome and forbidding: they lie before us like a void and frustrate any desire to enter and explore them. By contrasting seductive aesthetics with a darker undertone, Navarro's works make a powerful allusion to political events in his native Chile and to systems of control and repression the world over. From December 5, 2017 – April 15, 2018 you can catch Navarro’s installation on display at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao from the exhibit ‘Art and Space’. The point of departure of ‘Art and Space’ is the collaboration between Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969, which resulted in the publication of an artist book whose title inspired that of this exhibition. By updating and fleshing out concepts and questions embedded in that extraordinary dialogue, this show presents more than 100 works by international artists and offers itself as a reinterpretation of the history of abstraction in the past six decades. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #ivánnavarro #artist #neon #artandspace #chile #chilean #political #santiago #museoguggenheimbilbao (at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao)
