Microsoft Word - Jaime Coolabah Joan Navarro


Coolabah, Vol.2, 2009, ISSN 1988-5946 Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, 

Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona 

 

 

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Joan Navarro 
 

Barcelona, Spain. May 20, 1974. 

He lives and works at Barcelona. 

He is a Professor at the Escola Massana de Barcelona 

 

 

His work has been exhibited in renowned group exhibitions in Spain and his work has 

been bought by private collectors in Spain and Japan. 

 

 

Black marble. 

 

Memory inside geometry 
 
The geometric form of the cylinder 

serves as a starting point for the 

arduous process of removal and 

elimination to arrive at a final form 

where the image is seen to be 

liberated from all symbolic elements. 

The act of carving, gradually 

permits a maximum simplification of 

the form. 

When you eat fruit: once its flesh has 

been cut up and eaten, take delight 

in the contemplation of its heart.