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Navarro
Rafael Navarro Núñez (Córdoba, 1946- íd, 27 July 2015) was a Spanish painter.

Biography
It studied in the School of Arts Applied and Artistic Jobs of Córdoba and in 1968 initiates his upper studies in the School of Fine arts Santa Isabel of Hungary of Seville. In 1970 ingresa in the School of Saint Fine arts Fernando of Madrid, where will remain three years applied to the painting, the serigrafía, the painting mural, the xylography or the recorded calcográfico. To the pair, makes four courses of Drawing in the Circle of Fine arts of Madrid.

It was professor of the School of Arts and Jobs of Córdoba between 1980 and 1986, school that abandoned to devote completely to the painting.

Path
His first individual exhibition carries it out in the Madrilenian gallery Novart in 1978. To this will follow more than thirty individual exhibitions and other so many collective, that will go offering his pictorial advances and his small obsessions.

Navarro liked to classify his work in vetoes it expressionist, a painting to horse between the figuración and the abstraction. Always it stood out the importance of his go through Madrid, city in which it happened ten decisive years in his training. Between his grandmasters projects Goya, but no the Goya of the Real House or the tapestries, but the Goya of the Black Paintings. His big painters were Francis Bacon and Antonio Saura.

Partició In the collective sample “60 years of contemporary art in Córdoba (1953-2013)” celebrated in Córdoba in four headquarters at the same time in December of 2014.

Kassel
In October of 2012 prepared his last sample, a magna exhibition with more than 130 works that did a route by more than 30 years of painting. Of the hand of Michael Wilkens, architect and chair of Theory of the Architecture of the University of Kassel, founder of the group Baufrösche (Frogy constructors), Navarro exposed in the Atelier of Langestrasse (Kassel, Germany) a group of works that went of 1980 to 2012. The exhibition stated, on the one hand, of the last series of Navarro, titled Nosferatu, in addition to the series Matador and Toxic Landscape, made between the years 2004 and 2010. Besides, they added 18 pictures of the collector and commissioner of the exhibition, Alfonso Rodríguez, that contributed a route by the work of the artist from 1983 to 2004.

Exhibitions more important
They stand out the individual exhibitions carried out in Gallery Arlanzón, C.A.m. (Boroughs, 1979); Gallery Lawns (Córdoba, 1979); Gallery Studio 52 (Córdoba, 1982); Gallery Harras (Málaga, 1983); Gallery Arc-in-Ciel (Córdoba, 1983); Room Mateo Inurria (Córdoba, 1983 and 1987); Gallery Melchor (Seville, 1984). Provincial box of Savings (Granada, 1984); School of Architects (Córdoba, 1986); Palace of the Favour (Córdoba, 1988); Room of Exhibitions Box of Salamanca (itinerant by Palencia, Valladolid, Zamora and Ávila, 1988); Room of Exhibitions Box of Savings of Asturias (itinerant by Gijón, Avilés, Mieres and The Felguera, Oviedo, 1989); Gallery Velázquez (Valladolid, 1990); Room of Exhibitions Postal Box of Savings (itinerant by Cádiz and Jerez of the Border, Cádiz, 1990); Gallery Of the Ship (Seville, 1993); Palace of Viana (Córdoba, 1994); Gallery Open Window (Seville, 1999); Palace of the Favour (Córdoba, 2001); Room of Exhibitions The Pergola (Córdoba, 2003); Galeria Art 21. (Córdoba, 2006) and Atelier of Langestrasse (Kassel, Germany, 2012).