MIQUEL NAVARRO (Mislata, Valencia, 1945).Untitled, 2000.Terracotta. Copy 5/6.Signed, numbered and dated on the base.Size: 33 x 8 x 14 cm.A painter and sculptor, Miquel Navarro is today considered to be one of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists, as well as one of the most representative of the new Spanish sculpture of the seventies and eighties, especially oriented towards the expanded space of installations, as well as interventions on nature and actions on the body. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia and began his career in the early sixties, exhibiting his first "Ciutat" in 1973, in clay, a concept of prototypical work that integrates sets of small pieces configured as diverse structures and constructions ranging from the rural to the urban and from the environmental to the industrial. Later he began to use iron, as it allowed him to make larger and more resistant sculptures. In 1980 he made the international leap with his first exhibition in New York (Guggenheim Museum), which was followed by others in Berlin, California, Mexico, Florence, etc. In 1986 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, and in 2008 he was elected a full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He has monumental sculptures in several Spanish cities and abroad, and is represented in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MACBA in Barcelona, the IVAM in Valencia, the Mie in Japan and the Wurth Künzelsau in Germany, among other public and private collections.