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Three spaces will house, while unaexposición anthological retrospective of the work of Enrique Gabriel Navarro, one of the most important painters of cartagenero art scene of the twentieth century, which will be done an extensive review by a selection of easel paintings, murals and portraits of the Son of the city of Cartagena.
The exhibition represents a lifetime dedicated to the world of painting since Navarro, despite his early death at the age of 53, had made unaextensa and diverse work both stand as a portrait and stressed, in turn, as a muralist.
That is why we are going to use three spaces to give each one its own specificity within the framework of its diverse artistic production.
At the Palace Hall of Cartagena will be represented all his work trestle from suscomienzos learning to susúltimos abstract painting and drawings.
The murals will be exposed in elMuseo the Roman Theatre, artificial stone, marble and tile in the city of Cartagena.
This space will also house a selection of sketches, photographs of large format and partial installation of a mural author.
One of its most representative facets as a painter, portrait, you can admire Cartagena at the headquarters of the Cultural Center Caja Murcia Foundation.
The inauguration of this exhibition will take place at the Palace Hall on Friday, October 28, at 19:00 hours, then be passed to Roman Theatre Museum to finish in the Caja Murcia Foundation.
LIFE AND WORK OF ENRIQUE NAVARRO
The painter Enrique Gabriel Navarro was born in Cartagena In 1927 and died in 1980. Navarro is a leading artist of the Region of Murcia who left a unique mark on the city of Cartagena as a painter, muralist, teacher and as a dynamic figure in the cultural life in the city, mainly in the period of democratic transition in our country.
The Government of Spain awarded the Silver Medal for Artistic Merit shortly before his death and also is favorite son of the city of Cartagena.
The artist died at age 53, when he was in a position to offer the best of itself, as it has rightly expressed the critic Santiago Amon: a painter who came to die when he was, as so often happens with the key enigma.
His artistic life was therefore short and yet fruitful.
He jumped domain between different aesthetic tendencies, without neglecting any.
To his credit they include fully figurative works, in addition to expressionistic, neofauvistas and abstract;
for the latter it is more recognized and valued.
An abstraction that has been defined comoapacible, serene, without fanfare, with endless nuances rich, deep tones and textures suggestive.
Student, like so many cartageneros artists, deVicente Ros, the Carthaginian painter who, in turn, fuediscípulo of Wssell Guimbarda, who in 1931 founded a study in which most contemporary cartageneros painters of very different styles and trends were formed.
Enrique Gabriel Navarro then completed studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and later in Valencia, and met the latest trends in avant-garde art in creative competitions in Italy and in his visit to France.
Enrique Gabriel Navarro left excellent examples of his work as a muralist, both individually and as works closely with its partner elpintor Ramón Alonso Luzzy.
He also left a large piece of portraits of exceptional quality through which he expressed his expertise in the study of the human figure and the varied hues of humanity of his characters.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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