Fotos cortesía de Fundación Ibercaja 

Fundación Ibercaja has organized the exhibition ‘Lunar Metropolis’ in two Zaragoza venues: Museo Goya and Mobility City. Until 2 March 2025, Zaha Hadid’s bridge at the Zaragoza Expo grounds, turned into Mobility City, presents three cities created by the Valencian artist Miquel Navarro. These sculptural works – Ciudad 84-85, Una urbe en tus manos (1998), and Fluido en la urbe (2003) – spark reflection on urban planning and human interaction.

Navarro’s urbs identify metaphorically with the human body. The pieces are presented individually but group together, interrelate, and interconnect to form a unity. Using materials like clay, zinc, iron, and aluminum, the cities spread horizontally along the exhibition space, highlighted with a vertical element, such as a central cluster of skyscrapers, obelisks, or pyramids, that rises over the rest to symbolize both the power and the isolation of the individual.

The montage of these cities is temporary, as they differ in design with each public showing, although they always stem from a prior scheme. Urbe en tus manos was conceived with the aim of encouraging children to play and interact with it in creating their own city, thereby contributing to the evolution of the artist’s initial scheme.