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Iv\u00e1n Navarro, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb (Matte Black and Warm White)<\/i>, 2014, neon, wood, formica, drum hardware and electric energy, 72″ x 32″.<\/p><\/div>\n

Iv\u00e1n Navarro was born in Chile, in 1972, the year before Pinochet came to power. He grew up with the fear of being disappeared, and so it\u2019s fitting, in a way, that he\u2019s chosen light as his medium. From his studio in Brooklyn, Navarro makes sculptures of fluorescent tubes. \u201cI make spaces in a fictional way to deal with my own psychological anxiety<\/a>,\u201d he\u2019s said. He\u2019s created neon men and doors, neon words and portals. Ladders of light. Shopping carts of light. Fences, basketball hoops, and water towers of light. There\u2019s an unnerving, geometric precision to these objects. Coming away from them, you begin to see doorways and boundaries with their same nefarious glow; every act of exiting and entering becomes freighted. Many of his works seem to stretch into infinity, as if beckoning you, against your will, into another dimension\u2014a mise-en-abyme effect that\u2019s sometimes deliberately disconcerting, as in one work that shows you the word BOMB receding toward the horizon. It\u2019s seductive signage: you want to go toward the bomb.<\/p>\n

Through October 18, CorpArtes<\/a> is hosting his first retrospective in his native Chile. These images are drawn from the works on display there. You can see more of his work at Paul Kasmin Gallery\u2019s Web site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Pink Electric Chair<\/i>, 2006, fluorescent lights, color sleeves, metal fixtures and electric energy, 45 1\/2″ x 31 1\/3″ x 43 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>

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Red Ladder (Backstage)<\/i>, 2005, fluorescent lights, color sleeves, metal fixtures and electric energy, 11 1\/8″ x 29 1\/8″ x 7 1\/8″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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