A business 6 meters long and 4 meters high Hanged by 740 ropes with 8,000 pieces of coal like a stretching star. big black spot inside texture of silenceAlicante’s first major exhibition Anthony Navarro in Alicante after a small exhibition at the gallery Father christmasAlicante Fish Market opens this Thursday at 20:00 in the exhibition hall.
Navarro, Doctor of Fine Arts, he always works in silence and produces his works as such.. The name of his previous project was that one word. (Silence) and now, as a result, in Lonja texture of silenceAs the artist working on this project, which includes floating or three-dimensional works, explains, it is “an act of meditation, repetition and accumulation of elements” that gives “bodily” to his works. since 2016.
Navarro adds texture to the absence of words. “non-noble or non-fine art” materials aspect coal, paper or methacrylate. «I collect these materials in order to reverse this concept and turn it into artistic pieces; I play create other dimensions from this act of repetition”, points to those little bits marabou coal embedded or hung from some large pieces. Black, which dominates the room, is a color that Navarro is interested in because it is “the most neutral, the most all-encompassing, the most magical”.
In the exhibition curated by Gertrud Gómez, this “great black spot” is suspended and at the same time five meters polyptych long, in addition to thirty small works placed in the Tabarca and Luceros chambers.