Cloister

The theme of this piece, the Public University of Navarre, is represented from an avant-garde formalism. It does not seek the beauty of forms, but a symbolic communication from the significant elements of the subject, which is historically cast from an artistic culture which makes communication feasible through languages where self-expression is not required.
In the artwork it is evident that there is a clear and unambiguous desire to narrate the representative elements of the Public University of Navarre. The viewer can perform a reading of these graphically simplified elements. Doctoral caps and gowns are almost linear ideograms; even the University anagram is an external symbol of university life.
But the University is not only represented by its external signs. It is also found in the plastic language used, in the gestures that respond to wishes of integrating diversity as a symbol of universality: light rhythms that distribute the tensions across the surface of the picture; dense and heavy rhythms that mark a top and a bottom; transparency combined with shapes and dense colours; light colour and symbol colour; representation of figures with influences from the media; compositional biases that show characteristics of a current language while maintaining elements of a historical past...
Signs of yesterday and today are represented, too, in two architectural styles that play a spatial and symbolic counterpoint: the fragments of classical architecture, which are associated with those of the University Campus itself.
Isabel Cabanellas Aguilera