Interior II. Piezas de sombra, gravedad y magnetismo terrestre (Interior II. Pieces of Shade, Gravity and Terrestrial Magnetism)

In the 1970s, architect and painter Juan Navarro Baldeweg worked in the sphere of Conceptual Art, attending and participating in, with the CAYC (Centre of Art and Communication) group, activities such as those organised by Madrid’s Computing Centre and the Pamplona Encounters. From that juncture, his personal search became concerned less with the connection between art and cybernetics and more with the phenomenological definition of space and the processes inherent in the physical world and its energies. Interior II, made in 1974 and displayed the following year at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge Massachusetts, is a work conceived to show the activation of space through light, gravity and magnetism and comprises elements which activate the energies in the room’s space.     
The piece brings to light “complementary space”, a notion stemming from external energy — in this case from the confluence of shadow, through the effect of light, and gravity, manifested via magnetism. For Navarro Baldeweg, “the light in the room is not just any event; rather, it is nothing less than the incorporation of the room in solar movement. That light pours into the room, leaving everything touched by a certain cosmic filiation”. Thus, the work demonstrates an activation of space by virtue of the interrelationship of three systems or patterns: light and shadow; light and weight; and the gravitational field and magnetic field.   
Carmen Fernández Aparicio