By Vicente Nunez
Writer, poet of El Grupo Cantico

Ignacio Navarro is an enthusiast who is groping, wavering between two constant extremes in drawing and a sometimes-ugly historic past, color and dishonor. His formal world is not the world of the average person. It is the consequence of desire to erase a defeat, as in poetry, of taking control over error. He achieves this through his art, as his very own angels, and with the grace that these angels would have if they were reincarnated in some epoch.

Ignacio Navarro has exercised this same control over our color system and our historic forms. By this means he brings us toward his art. In the simplicity of his style is our maturity. His restlessness trembles in the drawings, through them he takes his chances (correctly) like no one else has done, with graceful color. Fix your gaze on the delicacy of his pen. Accept the wandering world of his fat dark birds [his brushes]. Stroll across the wisdom of his pictorial order, so stricken with both stench and laughter.

Ingenuity made into form. Oh, the color and its grace. In this manner Ignacio Navarro gives us his talent -- in the exquisite norms of his drawing-color.

V.N.
Tr. from the Spanish by Constance Ashton Myers Aug. 11, '00