Brief – Fleeting · Traveling book · Antonio Navarro #3
If I had to say where I come from, I would say from Lascaux. The memory of human history flows in my genes, a society which has been transhumant from the beginning, tireless traveller in search of a place to settle, but ready to conquer the universe… A man walked to ‘make way’, creating pathways,…
Brief – Fleeting · Antonio Navarro #2
Reading Le Breton I discovered the following text: ‘The car driver is the man of oblivion: the landscape parades beside him, beyond the windscreen, without him feeling anything, in a kind of sensory anesthesia and hypnosis on the road’. ‘To make way’ mesmerizes me, colours flooding through my eyes underlie the passage of time, along…
Brief – Fleeting · Gertrud Gómez
FLEETING by Gertrud Gómez So is he, fast. He flees and disappears with speed, but at the same time he is eternal and immutable, something that makes him unique and true, as opposed to the transient, with what is brief. He recreates and repeats linear landscapes, dragging us to visual feelings. Travels, experiences, recognized routes…
Brief – Fleeting · Pilar Escanero de Miguel
BRIEF AND ETERNAL, AT THE SAME TIME / SIMULTANEOUSLY Just as the petals of the lotus opened, announcing a new day, so did the notes of the harp as Neheh brushed the fragile strings of her instrument under the sycamore, by the banks of the Nile. ‘Let it smell of lotus and give shade to…
Brief – Fleeting · Dulce Pérez
I just took down the last piece of Antonio Navarro’s exhibition in the ‘Sala aLfaRa’. The name of his exhibition was ‘Fugaz’, meaning brief, and it really was. Our intention was to gather his artwork in a precious and precise catalog, making the most of what we lived for less than two months in this…
Brief – Fleeting · Juan Carlos Aparicio
Antonio Navarro: Patterned landscapes, By Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega Travelling is again brought to the artistic scene as a recurrence, although in this case it is only the transcription of a memory. Far from those hiker painters who enjoyed the arrival of a changing light in the mountains or by the sea, Antonio Navarro (Creon,…
Brief- Fleeting · Luis Feás
HYPNOSIS ON THE ROAD Fugacity should be considered an artistic category in its double meaning, both ephemeral and elusive. Since the Impressionists endeavored to capture a moment in direct competition with photography, there have been endless ways of catching a fugitive moment, so unattainable for painters until then, representing it, imitating it, making that movement…