Marcela Navascués
Spain, 1967.
Lives and works in Porto, Portugal.
Her work has been shown in over a hundred exhibitions over the years. She has participated in international fairs such as Arco (Spain), ArtCologne (Germany), ArtLisboa (Portugal), MilanArt (Italy), ArtMadrid (Spain), Lille2004ARTevent (France). She inaugurated the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, was the first non-Portuguese artist to exhibit in the cloister of the Alberto Sampaio Museum in Guimarães, was twice invited to participate in the annual exhibition of the Amelia Moreno Foundation, was a scholarship holder at the Casa de Velázquez, participated in the Basurama Festival at La Casa Encendida and has also exhibited at the PhotoEspaña Festival.
In 2004 she decided to make a change in her life and moved to Oporto, where she continued her creative work, enriched by the cultural exchange in her new country. She has worked with galleries such as Galeria Jorge Shirley in Lisbon and Galeria Sala Maior in Porto among others, and in Spain she has always been represented by Galeria Edurne in Madrid.
In 2017 she began studying goldsmithing and jewellery at Centro Cindor (Gondomar). The knowledge of the techniques of handling metal gave rise to the last series of works that Marcela has made and presented to date. These works under the title of ‘Adn da Arte’, are a tribute to the Palaeolithic petroglyphs (25,000 years old) found in the Museo Do Côa in Foz Côa Portugal.
By joining the brass and the original drawings and remaining faithful to the original design, she tries to capture what the slate had kept for so many thousands of years. This series of works were exhibited in 2019 at the Museo do Côa, and later in 2020, the series and three new pieces were presented at the Palacio de los Águila, Ciudad Rodrigo, on the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of Siega Verde as a World Heritage Site, cross-border art from the Palaeolithic.