Fluorescent Tubes Art

Ivan Navarro is a Chilean artist born in Santiago currently living in New York. His signature mark are fluorescent tubes which he almost always uses to make his sculptures and installations. The young artist’s work represented Chile at last year’s Venice Biennale. Navarro uses the esthetic cleanliness and simplicity of fluorescent tubes to create more complex sculptures so as to reinterpret useful objects and gain shiny forms of ambiguous meaning. The alluring light of his work draws us to the sculpture, yet the ever-present danger of electric shock keeps the viewer at a safe distance. Monumental combinations of light tubes, mirrors which distort reality and create nonexistent depth, and a line of well-known living room furniture made of lights, are part of the young Chilean’s impressive work. The author sees his work as creating upon unexplained aspects of minimalism, as work that motivates the viewer to interact with it, underlining social and political factors which almost always define formal composition.

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