納瓦除了在創作過程中體現「錯誤」的概念,更著迷於在他所收集的廣大的資料庫中發現「錯誤」:「即使看著一幅文藝復興時期的畫作時,我也在尋找錯誤;這些錯誤對我來說似乎更有生命力。納瓦表示:「『不正確』的作畫方式讓我能闡述更多的事物,我認為這樣更有趣所以就這樣去創作了。大概從2007或2008年開始就是如此,只不過作品現在變得非常精緻,而我也更加了解自己想著墨研究的內容。」 i
Robert Nava (b. 1985) is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Using a rough and
free-flowing hand, Nava recreates the innocent and unlearned art of childhood. His works are
“carefully done wrong,” subverting the rigid fundamentals of painting and conventions of
completeness that Nava learned as an MFA student at Yale University. Nava’s paintings often
feature imagined mythological figures and histories of the artist’s creation whose drama is
brought to life with the frenetic energy of the artist’s brush.