Designer Sara Navarro makes Dorothy’s dream come true in Mubag

This is the common thread with which gallery owner Begoña M. Deltell worked to shape the exhibition. Art as inspiration. Sara Navarro’s collectionIt was inaugurated this morning at the Gravina Fine Arts Museum in Alicante (Mubag), which you can see. until 25 June. An exhibition where a conceptual dialogue is established between pieces from the designer’s collection, which includes the great names of contemporary art, and the shoes he creates from all over the world. more than 38 countries in the world.

“A singular project, I would say unique in Spain, with this dialogue, which creates a renewal to maintain a clear concept, advocating contemporary culture and its relationship with design, because they never parted,” the curator of the exhibition states.

He was 15 when he first designed, 17 when he bought his first piece of art, “working at the Valencia Furniture Fair while studying at university,” he says, and was 21 when he created his own brand.

This path in the art world went hand in hand with Sara Navarro. gallery owners, designers and friends it was something that nurtured her creativity while designing her shoes, which she entered in museums, galleries and art fairs. Starting with the gallery Nieves Fernandez this introduced him to the world of collectibles.

For Sara Navarro, who claims to spend more time in exhibitions and fairs than in fashion shows, “art is universal and these shoes dialogue with a language of emotion that goes beyond fashion and trends, giving them timelessness and a life of their own.”

And from that feedback was born this exhibit, which includes:e 53 works of art with two unpublished installations Pamen Pereira Y French Fuencisla, and fifty design. The selection includes works by artists such as: Tàpies, Chillida, Palazuelo, Jaume Plensa, Equipo Crónica, Miró, Guionovart, Lucio Mñoz, Genovés or Eduardo Nave, many from his collection, which includes contributions from galleries who accompanied him on the road, such as Nieves Fernández, Llamazares, Aural or Daniel Cuevas, among others.

for Navarro, Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts Y With this exhibition the Silver Star of the Community of Madrid saw the “dream” of his collection “to be displayed in Alicante” come true, because “ bringing art into daily life is a human right and duty in its highest manifestation; keeping it alive and supporting it is the best legacy because art has no age or social status”.

He also envisions this exhibition as “just a recognition for the gallery owners, because without them private collecting would probably not exist”.

Mubag’s manager, Jorge Soler, describes this exhibition as an “extremely important” event.a challenge for museums” to mount on Rooms by Emilio Varela. In addition, with this exhibition, the museum opens to other audiences with “singular and contemporary initiatives”.

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at the opening ceremony of the exhibition a theme singer Marilia Andrésa personal friend of the designer, the first vice president and vice president for Culture, Julia ParraIt underlines the state of Alicante “deserves to have the best“It seems obvious but not so obvious because to have virtue you must first believe that this goal is possible.”

“Alicante should resonate in the main regions of Spain and outside of Spain, it should be a place to be reckoned with, and we’ve given an example of how Alicante sounds good,” with “quality” cultural offerings, and this new exhibition “proves it”. “A few months ago Sarah came suggest us a dream that will combine his collector’s side with the design professiona great idea that excites us as much or more than it does, and today finally sees the Light”.

President of the Provincial Assembly, Carlos Mazon He closed the action by assuring that “culture is spelled with D for Diputación”. One of the goals of the legislature is to “beside quality programming”. Recognizing the talent we have We still haven’t evaluated it enough.” That’s why Sara Navarro’s ” prophet in his own countrybecause he “loves his land and his land loves him”.