The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presents a compelling retrospective of American artist Robert Nava. This exhibition features 17 large-format works from 2019 to 2024, showcasing his distinctive artistic journey. Nava's unique style, influenced by prehistoric art and cartoons, creates a new mythology. Explore his captivating hybrid creatures and zoomorphic monsters in scenes reflecting contemporary themes.
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This exhibition showcases a retrospective of American artist Robert Nava, featuring 17 large-format works created between 2019 and 2024. Nava's work challenges good taste with a unique style influenced by prehistoric art, cartoons, and artists like Basquiat, creating a new mythology with hybrid creatures and violent scenes.
Within its exhibition programme devoted to the collection of Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum presents a retrospective of the work of the American artist Robert Nava (born 1985). Curated by Guillermo Solana, this marks the artist's first solo museum exhibition and features 17 large-format works created between 2019 and 2024. Among the featured pieces are "Castle Back Flyer" (2021) and "Red River Storm" (2023), both from the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Consciously diverging from academic norms, Robert Nava has cultivated a distinctive style often associated with "bad painting"—works that deliberately challenge conventional good taste. His artistic influences are diverse, drawing from Prehistoric and Egyptian art, Pre-Columbian culture, cartoons, and the oeuvres of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly. Nava's artistic endeavor is to forge a new mythology that mirrors the present day, populated by hybrid creatures and zoomorphic monsters inhabiting scenes imbued with elements of violence.
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