Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané was born in Barcelona, Spain (1977), and he lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s work is made up of subtle yet crude experiments that explore the relationship between language and the world. Although primarily conceptual, his installations engage with the imagination of the spectator and exhibit a strong concern about the existence of everything we see, but especially about everything that we do not see.
Mangrané’s art 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 the way which the organic and the geometric, the vital and the abstract, far from being distinct, actually define one another.

Recent solo shows include A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2019);  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 Were Raised on 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, 14th 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).