La mesa (The Table)
- Date
1974-2005
- Technique
- Installation
- Materia
Oregon pine wood, maple wood, brass, bronze, wood, metal, rope, lead, gold leaf, chamotte, marble and refractory bricks
- Dimensions
- Overall: 200 x 225 x 950 cm / 29 x 13 x 950 cm / 125 x 119 x 29 cm / 4,5 x 82 x 200 cm / 4,5 x 67 x 200 cm
- Description
Installation consisting of thirty-one independent sculptures from the series "Gravity and Balance" dated between 1973 and 2006, supported without welding on a Oregon pine wood table
- Year of entry
- 2010
- Registration number
- AD06156
In 1974, painter and architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg studied at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Visual Studies on a scholarship from the Juan March Foundation, where he was a student of Hungarian-born photographer and theorist György Kepes. This training period would give rise to a series of sculptures and installations now considered key in Spanish conceptual art.
This work brings together 31 pieces conceived over 30 years, forming a true retrospective of the formal vocabulary of his sculptures and architectures. His solutions to compositional, technical and spatial problems were specifically designed to develop the central concept of gravitational field, central to his production, through balances and counterbalances
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