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Iván Navarro: Beat, 2016. Mixed media, 121 x 121 x 40 cm.
Beat by Iván Navarro is a black bass drum with imbedded fluorescent lights and a mirror on the inside of the glass surface. This creates an illusion of a tunnel surrounded by multiple doubled light circles.
In the middle of the drum the word Beat is written in bent neon. The word Beat is repeated as a fixed, almost musical, rhythm that beats in pace and stretches itself infinitel through the tunnel. Here beat functions as a word, but also comments on the effect the word makes. A beat functions because of its repeatability. Navarro mainly creates installations where he works with the effects of lights, mirrors, and words, which in an almost poetic manner reflect and perform their own meaning.
Iván Navarro (1972, CL) is one of Chiles most significant contemporary artists and has lived and worked in New York since 1997. He represented Chile at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and his works have been exhibited at several prominent institutions and galleries world-wide such as Guggenheim Bilbao, ES; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, US; CorpArtes Foundation, CL; Nasher Museum of Art, US and Gallery Hyundai, KR. Navarro’s works are part of the collections at museums such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, US; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, FR; Towner Contemporary Art Museum, UK; Saatchi Collection, UK and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, ES.
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