© Jorge das Neves

© Jorge das Neves

© Jorge das Neves

© Jorge das Neves

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

A Dream Dreaming a Dream, 2020
Real-time video projection of a procedural computer-generated animation, black and white
Commissioned and produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

1977, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's work examines the gray area that exists between opposing notions in Western culture, such as culture and nature, subject and object, reality and reverie, seen and hidden. The artist often combines different elements, such as the natural with the artificial, or places them in strange environments. In doing so, it manufactures situations in which predetermined superiors break down and the boundaries of apparently inverse things dissolve to provide new perspectives in the middle. His practice covers a wide range of media, including cinema, sculpture, sound, gardens and drawing, with an approach to the creation and migration of forms between nature, art and architecture. Mangrané is particularly interested in biological and morphogenetic processes, which he uses as inspiration for the creation of works that, responding to self-imposed systems of chance and rules-based principles of composition, undermine the boundaries between organic aesthetics and human aesthetics and the traditional separations between objects and subjects.