Photos courtesy of CentroCentro

For Juan Navarro Baldeweg, build and create are verbs that are conjugated identically, given that both express the same impulse. So it is that everything in his oeuvre has a place in a coherent vision, such as the elements of what he calls a “prior house,” a space for stimulating encounters, whether intended or accidental. Until 2 November – at its home, Cibeles Palace – Madrid’s City Hall presents ‘Hacer y azar,’ an exhibition which by putting a wide assortment of paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and models in order, enables us to discern motifs that have been recurrent in Navarro Baldeweg’s more than six decades of work: themes of light, gravity, and energy flows which – as in his architecture – have persisted througout his artistic career, from the early drawings in his native Santander and his study grant at MIT to his anointment with Spain’s National Prize for Plastic Arts and his most recent explorations.