The video shot from the angle of the teque-teque fowl opens Mangrané’s attention-grabbing exhibition at Kiasma – Muricas News

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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: A Leaf Shapes the Eye 10.9. till (fifth ground) and 13.8. till (third ground) Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2. Tue–Fri 10–20.30. Sat 10am–6pm, Solar 10am–5pm.

In by no means seen Kiasma’s fifth ground on this mild. The big skylights are opened to the spring solar, however the filters connected to the home windows colour your entire area sky blue. The exceptions are the small yellow kiosk within the heart of the area, inside which you'll squeeze your self a glass of refreshing orange juice, and the holograms glowing purple that appear to make holes within the partitions.

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The ground coated with turquoise plastic grass is bumpy and makes the viewer watch their steps.

Born in Barcelona and lives in Rio de Janeiro Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (b. 1977) is a flexible and insightful conceptual artist. His giant installations activate all of the senses in a means that mixes sight with bodily expertise; completely different senses of scent, style, contact and listening to.

Mangrané each reinforces and destabilizes the conventions of viewing: the ground coated with turquoise plastic grass is bumpy and makes the viewer watch their steps. Quiet flute music prompts mild strings tuned to a excessive pitch and causes them to flash like vertical lightning bolts. The exhibition makes the viewer conscious of their physique and reminds them that experiences, emotions and considering are related to what our senses obtain.

To the blue a number of works accomplished at completely different instances and executed in numerous methods are scattered all through the area. Mangrané performs with scale. One work is tiny, one other reaches as much as the ceiling, and the third is painted on the wall on the spot. Taken collectively, the expertise of all that is as nice as a day on a sunny seaside or the light chords of Bossa Nova.

 

 

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: Magnificence and renunciation, 2011, osa teoksesta. Image: The Nationwide Gallery

Though The fifth ground is tempting, you must begin watching the exhibition from the fourth ground and from the video, which is slightly below a minute lengthy One after the other (2011), which introduces us to the fowl of the identical title. Nevertheless, we don’t see an endangered creature, however the rainforest as a fowl leaping from department to department may see it. The fast-paced lower of the video is predicated on the tune of a small fowl.

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Nature will not be a passive object. It additionally has the power to understand, really feel and react.

Mangrané’s relationship with nature is one among Mangrané’s central themes, which he approaches in quite a few alternative ways, beginning with watercolors and collages. The place to begin is commonly a dualistic association of opposites, which he tries to interrupt or combine, comparable to by basing his works on the tune of a fowl or the geometry of the actions of an insect, as within the work Ghost crickets (2012).

Mangrané criticizes the way in which people objectify nature with out understanding that life on earth is predicated on complicated interdependence and coexistence as a substitute of opposites. The Brazilian rainforests, that are essential to him, have taught him that nature will not be a passive object. It additionally has the power to understand, really feel and react.

Probably the most spectacular works of the exhibition are Loopy thought (2020), a sequence of pictures mixing animals and vegetation and a thinker Juliana Fauston ready critical texts. The multi-level and topical work opens up views on the restoration of nature by feral pets which were launched into the wild and have change into an issue in Brazil.

The work additionally features a story in regards to the Tijuca Nationwide Park, which the Emperor of Brazil Peter II ordered to be established in 1861 on the positioning of the espresso and sugar plantations that beforehand existed within the space. 100 years later, the initially synthetic forest was declared a nature reserve.

 

 

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: Praying crickets, 2012, nonetheless picture from video. Image: Kiasma