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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
Antonio Navarro: paisajes pautados por Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega El viaje nuevamente es traído a la escena artística como pretexto, si bien en este caso es únicamente el trasunto de un recuerdo. Muy alejado de aquellos pintores excursionistas que disfrutaban, ya entrado el siglo XIX, de la captación de una luz cambiante en la montaña…
HIPNOSIS DE LA CARRETERA La fugacidad debería ser considerada como una categoría artística. En su doble acepción: como efímera y como huidiza. Desde que los impresionistas se empeñaron en capturar el instante, en competencia directa con la fotografía, han sido infinitas las maneras de atrapar el momento fugitivo, tan inaprensible hasta entonces para los pintores,…
FUGAZ Acabo de descolgar la última pieza de la exposición de Antonio Navarro en la Sala aLfaRa, Fugaz, y lo fue. Quisimos atraparla en un catálogo preciso y precioso que da buena cuenta de lo que vivimos durante casi dos meses en este espacio. Y nos queda el recuerdo de las horizontales de colores atravesando…