Rafael NAVARRO
Introduction
Rafael NAVARRO was born in 1940, Zaragoza, Spain. He is a Spanish art photographer.
He began his photographic work at the dawn of the 1970s by first photographing theater and sports circles, before beginning to develop his own visual language. Since then, he has never ceased to immortalize the human body and its reflections, seeking to emphasize a beauty resulting from an idea and a sensation. His work revolves around two main axes: the study of feminine forms and the play of shadows and lights which he uses with a masterful hand.
Navarro quickly became very active in the world of photography when in 1977 he joined the Alabern group with Manuel Esclusa (among others). A year later, he was appointed representative member of the Latin American Council of Photography and also became an advisor to the Miro Foundation.
His work has been exhibited more than 500 times in galleries and museums around the world and makes up an important part of the collections of many institutions such as the National Library of France (BNF), the European House of Photography and contemporary art museums in Brussels or Buenos Aires. The artist is also the subject of numerous publications such as the Catalog Raisonné 1975-1998, published in 2000.
Biography
Solo exhibitions
2012
- Profil de l'eau, Peter KNAPP/ Rafael NAVARRO, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2010
- Courbet/ Proudhon : Une vision contemporaine, Gustave Courbet Farm, Flagey, France
2009
- Alumni of ?, Museum of Fine Arts, Besançon, France
- Panya, Gyoda, Japan
2008
- Flights : report #1, Louis Jouvet Center, Belfort, France
- Introspecciones, Cervantes Institute, Shanghai, China
2007
- Introspecciones, Cervantes Institute, Beijing, China
- Paper, stone, Refectory Canot, Besançon, France
2005
- Moises Pérez de Albéniz Gallery, Pamplona, Spain
- Cervantes Institute, Milano, Italy
2004
- Dipticos, International Biennal of Photography of Brescia, Italy
Group exhibitions
2013
- Summa Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Madrid, Spain
2005
- Arco 2005, Madrid, Spain
- Photography in Houston Galleries, with De Santos Gallery, International Biennal Foto Fest, Houston, USA
- Photographic?s Collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
- Art Köln, Köln, Germany
- Paris Photo, Paris, France
- Fest of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2004
- Photographie des années 1980 à 1990, Collection of the Spanish Contemporary Art Museum, Palma de Mallorca, Madrid, Spain
- Agua al desnudo, Canal Foundation, Madrid, Spain
- Paris Photo, Paris, France
- Museum of Art of Kopavogur, Island
- Fest of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
- Experimentation of the Collection of Photography of the Astroc Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Bibliography
- Rafael NAVARRO, Le nu photographié, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, 2000.
- Festival de la Luz, 11e Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Buenos Aires, 2000.
- Navarro, Rafael : Catalogue Raisonné 1975-1998, Collection Photogalerie M+M Auer, ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, Suisse.
- Paris Photo 1998-2000, Salon International de la Photographie, Paris, France.
public collections
- National Library of France, Paris, France
- Museum of Modern Art of Brussels, Belgium
- Museum of Modern Art of Mexico, Mexico
- Museum of Photography of Charleroi, Belgium
- Nicephore Niepce Museum, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
- Château d'Eau Museum, Toulouse, France
- Macedonien Thessalonique Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece
- European Museum of Photography, Paris, France
- Pilar Citoler Collection, Madrid, Spain
- CDAN Huesca, Spain
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