Iñigo Navarro
Overview – CV – Exhibitions
The art of Iñigo Navarro (Madrid-Spain, 1977) is a reflection on experience and memory, which is embodied in each of his creations. As a figurative artist, Navarro seeks to capture the essence of what is real and tangible, but also what is intangible, what we feel and experience in each moment.
Navarro takes a performative approach, meaning that his work is generated through action; through his own direct intervention in the creative process. In this way, his work is an imprint of his experience and his presence in the world. This imprint is manifested in every brushstroke, in every line, in all the textures of his works.
Navarro’s work also contains a philosophical element, as he seeks to investigate the nature of experience and the relationship between humans and the world around them. In this sense, his art becomes a tool for exploring the limits of knowledge, truth and perception.
Navarro’s influences are diverse and wide-ranging, encompassing everything from the literature of authors such as Fante, Gonzo, Bukowski, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Delillo, to the cinema of Tarkovsky and the paintings of Velázquez and Rivera. His works reflect these influences in various ways, whether in their subject matter, technique or style.
Another of the fundamental elements in Navarro’s work is the creative process itself. As an artist, he shows a clear interest in the journey, in the process of creation, which becomes an experience in itself. His art is a process of discovery, exploration and experimentation, which materialises in each work.
Thus, although at the beginning of his career he was interested in techniques such as video and photography, he reached a point where he realised he needed to formalise the emotion he felt during the process of painting, in Navarro’s words “the definitive medium”. In this sense, his work is linked to the tradition of painting from the Spanish Golden Age, which was characterised by, but not limited to, the representation of reality.
Finally, Navarro’s art seeks to escape from the conceptual space, from preconceived ideas and stereotypes, exploring a new territory between conceptualism and formalism, between playfulness and pessimism. His work is a constant search for the tension between these elements, which makes it a unique and impactful experience for the viewer. In short, Iñigo Navarro’s work is an invitation to explore the human experience from an artistic and philosophical perspective, through the medium of figures and images.
Artist's exhibitions
‘How to explain a joke to a horse’, Iñigo Navarro
January 27th 2024 to March 09th 2024