Mario
Navarro
(Chili,
born in 1970, live in Santiago)
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1000 revoluciones,
2005
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The
work of Mario Navarro is a sort of political and identitary investigation into
his own living environment. An istance of it is his project on the 1970's car
Chevrolet Opala, too expensive for ordinary people but a symbol of the police
and security agencies, and beyond this of the social and political weakining caused
by the Chilean dictatorial machinery. One of his public projects also consisted
of a temporary radio based in a roulotte, aiming at creating links between political,
community-related and artistic values. For our exhibition, Mario Navarro will
build a red container placed on a rotating axe. The container itself, emprisoned
within its own absurd momentum, also evokes the permanent movement of the thousands
similar structures throughout the world.
solo
shows (selection)
2005 Dignidad, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo,
Santiago / 2004 Camino La Pólvora: la caminanata de J.L.M., Sala
Puntángeles UPV, Valparaíso / 2003 Radio Ideal, Galeria Metropolitana,
Santiago / 30 days with nothing, Projecto de Arte Público, Canal Saint
Martín, Paris / 2002 The New Ideal Line (OPALA), Galería Gabriela
Mistral, Santiago / 1998 The New Ideal Line (STEREO), Galería Chilena,
Santiago group
shows (selection)
2005 Buenos días Santiago - una exposición
como expedición (curateur attitudes), Museo de arte contemporáneo, Santiago
de Chile / Transformer, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago / Circuitos/Circuits,
Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago / ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina / 2004
Condoro, Galchi, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago / Condoros Mistakes,
Galchi, Gaswork, London / R2, Rothembaum, Hamburg / 2003 Project
0-1, Arte Público, Hamburg / Platzer, Nacka Konsthall, Stockholm /
2002 Bienal Frewaves, Video y Multimedia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de
Los Angeles, MOCA, Los Angeles / I Bienal Ceara América, Fortaleza / 2001
Arquetipos, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José de Costa Rica
/ De Coya a Cerrillos, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago / 2000 Chile
100 años de Artes Visuales III Parte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
1999 2007, Galería Posada del Corregidor, Santiago / II Bienal Iberoamericana
de Lima / II Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre / Horizontes Cambiantes (Cuerpos,
redes, voces, tránsitos), Casa de América, Madrid publication
2002
The new ideal line (Opala), Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile |