DANIEL STEEGMANN MANGRANÉ

Mangrané’s work often traces the boundary where nature meets artifice. Lines, circles and rhombuses are drawn, cut and projected onto leaves; the delicate symmetry of branches is split in two. These precise interventions hold a powerful force of attraction: a moment of uncertainty between what is contrived and what is natural. In each of Steegmann Mangrané’s intricate compositions, we get to experience that, far from being distinct, the organic and the geometric, the vital and the abstract, define each other.

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s (Barcelona, 1977) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Recent solo shows include Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbaine, Villeurbaine (2019); A Transparent Leaf Instead Of The Mouth, CCS Bard College, New York (2018); —’- —’-, Fundació Tàpies (2018); A Transparent Leaf Instead Of The Mouth, Museu Serralves, Porto (2017); (Paisaje de posibilidades), MAMM, Medellín (2016); Lafayette Anticipation, Lafayette Foundation, Paris (2015); Animal que no existeix, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2014).

His work has been also featured at the group shows Concrete Contemporary, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2019); We where raised in the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Mixed Realities, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, (2018); Cosmic Spring, Centre Pompidou, Metz (2017); Biotopia, Kunsthalle Mainz (2017); Mondes Flotants, 14^th Biennale de Lyon (2017); The present in drag, Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016); Sorround Audience, New Museum Triennial, New York (2015); Beauty Codes, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); Treasure of Lima, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (2014)

Courtesy Mendes Wood DM