Untitled, 2014
Fundamental to Steegmann Mangrané’s art is his exploration of the act of exhibiting and the exhibition as a medium in its own right.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Barcelona, Spain, 1977
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Artist Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
Artwork Photo: Courtesy of Esther Schipper, Berlin
Artwork Photo: Courtesy of Esther Schipper, Berlin
The work of Brazilian-based, Catalan-born artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané is based on subtle and poetic scenarios that address the relationship between the perceptual world and objects, in which space and the physical encounter of the viewer is tantamount.
Fundamental to his art is his exploration of the act of exhibiting and the exhibition as a medium in its own right. Presentations of his work tend to take the form of a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk — a total work of art —, in which art works, viewers and space are bound in a dynamic relationship of mutual transformation. According to Steegmann Mangrané, the museum should cease to be a ‘space of accumulation of artifacts, isolated and protected from the exterior world, and instead should be a place where our relationship to objects and their reality is reconfigured’.
Untitled, 2014