Edgardo Navarro was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. A graduate of the Villa Arson in Nice and the School of Fine Arts in Leipzig, he studied under the tutelage of Professor Neo Rauch. The Mexican artist’s work has been the subject of personal exhibitions in various Institutions and galleries. The crossbred thinking of his native country, a melting pot of eras and civilizations, has accustomed him to multiplying the focal points on the same reality. His artistic universe is based on the interweaving of the history of painting and his personal journey.
Edgardo Navarro’s canvases offer themselves to us as doors to parallel universes. Each element may become a key to the mystery. Horizons, lenses, mirrors, windows, cacti, weavings and absent glances take us on board a kaleidoscopic ballet of mirages and optical illusions.
Subtly, without realizing it, the images lodge incisively in our mind, and we adopt the role of their characters, occupying strangely familiar spaces. The figuration, so evident in the painter’s work, is encrypted. His images dialogue with Renaissance perspective, Flemish morphology, symbolist light, the grit of Mexican murals and the playfulness of geometry.
EDUCATION
2009
« Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts » Villa Arson, (Diploma DNSAP) Graduation with distinction. Niza, France.
2008
« Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst [HGB] » with Professor Neo Rauch, Leipzig, Germany.
2000
« Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí » (Diploma in Mechanical Engineering). San Luis Potosí S.L.P., Mexico.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2020
« Passerelles », in the Cultural Institute of Mexico in Paris, France.
2017
« Dimensional Middle Time » Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015
« Nierika » Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France.
2013
« Territorio comun » Hotel Leipziger Hof Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2010
« Luftspiegelung » Archive Massive Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2009
« Contrepoint » Artegalore Gallery, Paris, France.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2020
« Clichés-Peintures », ENSA Limoges, France.
2019
« Le temps d’une image #2 », à l’Atelier Canopé, Caen, France.
2019
« L’esprit vagabond » Espace culturel Le Grand Turc, La Ferté-Macé, France
2018
« Murs », Museo de Bellas Artes de Caen, Caen, Francia.
2017
« Scénario fantôme» FRAC Normandie, Caen, France.
2016
« Le plaisir et les jours» L’Atelier blanc, Villefranche, Francia.
2014
« Have we been here for a long time? » Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France.
2010
« Prisonniers du soleil » Le Plateau, FRAC Ille de France. Paris, France.
2009
« Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge », Paris, France.
2008
« Salon d’Art Contemporain, Jeune Création », Paris, France.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2017
Scholarship « Aide à la recherche et production artistique », Centre National d’Art Plastiques, CNAP, France.
2012
Scholarship in artistic production of the Directions Régionales des Affaires Culturelles DRAC Ile-de-France.
2009
Artiste-residency « La Source » Villarceaux, France.
COLLECTIONS (Selection)
FRAC Limousin, France
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
G2 Collection Hildebrandt, Leipzig, Germany
Kunstsammlung Leipziger Hof, Leipzig, Germany.