Iván Navarro: The Bright Sun, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brasil, 2018
Iván Navarro: Fluorescent Light Sculptures, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, EUA, 2013.
Iván Navarro
cool fluorescent lights and electric power
65 × 77 × 3.5 in
Further images
The series Nowhere Man is based on twenty-one pictograms designed by Otl Aicher for the 1972 Munich Olympics, each of them depicting a particular Olympic sport. Created with tubes of fluorescent white light that can be easily found in any functional space, Navarro’s pictograms give a domestic and ordinary connotation to what should represent the apex of an individual athletic conquest. By choosing an everyday material as medium for the series, Navarro questions the representative logic of both Aicher’s pictograms and the event itself, where athletes are ultimately seen as representatives of their nations of origin instead of individuals.