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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza opens an exhibition of works by Robert Nava |
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Robert Nava, Red River Storm, 2023. Acrylic, grease pencil and oil on canvas. 195,6 x 233,7 cm. Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. © Robert Nava, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Richard Gary.
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MADRID.- Continuing with its programme devoted to the collection of Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum is presenting an exhibition of the work of the American artist Robert Nava (born 1985). Curated by Guillermo Solana, this is the first solo museum exhibition by the artist. It features 17 large-format works, including Castle Back Flyer (2021) and Red River Storm (2023), both from this collection.
From an early age, Robert Nava was interested and began to paint in an academic style. In 2008 he graduated from Indiana University Northwest with a degree in Fine Arts, and in 2011 obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from Yale. Today his work is represented in the collections of the Musée dArt Moderne de Paris, the Art Institute de Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Zuzeum Art Center in Riga. Robert Navas work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in cities such as London, New York and Seoul.
Navas style reflects an intention to unlearn and to move away from the rules and conventions acquired during his training. Consequently, he is frequently associated with so-called bad painting, a term coined in 1978 by Marcia Tucker, founding curator of the New Museum in New York, to define works that challenge the classical canons of good taste.
Pre-historic and Egyptian art, Pre-Columbian culture, cartoons and the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly are among the references which Nava has turned to in the construction of his own pictorial language.
The artists canvases are filled with mythological, zoomorphic creatures that inhabit tense, violent spaces, giving rise to cryptic scenes in which there is no narrative, just action. Sharks with gaping mouths, blood-covered alligators, dragons, winged angels and other hybrid monsters are among the creatures that configure Navas iconography. The forms are schematic and flat, with no sensation of depth, almost as if executed by a child with no knowledge of perspective.
Robert Navas notebooks are fundamental to his creative process and he draws in them as an exercise for recording ideas. Subsequently many of these drawings are translated onto his canvases, adapting them with regard to technique and proportions. The themes and motifs are transferred to his large-format paintings through the use of spray paint, acrylic paint and oil sticks, materials which allow him to work rapidly.
The works in the present exhibition date from the artists most recent period, between 2019 and 2024, during which his painting has become more complex, pictorial and dynamic. The works reveal Navas typical energy and convey his almost child-like capacity for fantasy and creativity, encouraging the viewer to reflect on loss of innocence and its rediscovery.
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