Nature as architecture

by Miquel Navarro

The architectures of man, alternatives to a universe already created, open the exhibition with the extraordinary pieces of Miquel Navarro. The artist made the first of his 'cities' in 1973. These were interconnected terracotta volumes to which he soon added materials such as aluminium, zinc, and bronze in a continuous exercise on sculpture and reflection on the volumetric space that would constitute, from then to today, one of his signs of identity. In the cities of Navarro, the allusion to Leon Battista Alberti's Res aedificatoria, and its city-house-organism relationships, is unavoidable,...