The sculptor Miquel Navarro, a leader in New Spanish Sculpture, dies at the age of 81

The sculptor, Miquel Navarro, died this Sunday at the age of 81 after a long illness. A reference of what is known as New Spanish Sculpture, the Valencian is one of the contemporary sculptors who helped to renew the language in this art at the end of the 20th century. This year it had been inaugurated in Mislata, his place of residence and birth, his workshop home after years of waiting.

The sculptor, who trained at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, had won the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1986 and was an academic at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. His work can be found in museums around the world. From the Guggnheim in New York to the Pompidou in Paris, passing through the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Lambert Foundation in Brussels or the Mie Prefectural Art Museum Mie in Japan.