“Point cloud forest”

In Brazil since 2004, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intended to spend three months in the country and get to know the Amazon, but his time ran out and he stayed here. His work includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, films and installations. He has participated in important exhibitions presented at institutions such as the Centro Cultural São Paulo, Casa França Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), Paço das Artes (São Paulo), Espaço Cultural Municipal Sérgio Porto (Rio de Janeiro), the 12th Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador), the 9th Mercosul Biennial, the 30th São Paulo Biennial, the 2008 Tehran Biennial (Iran), among others. In addition, he has curated exhibitions and received awards such as “Selección generación 2001”, from the Obra Social Caja Madrid, the Exhibition Program Award from the São Paulo Cultural Center (2007), from the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the "Beca Musac" (León, France - 2010), the Beca de residencia Junge Akademie, Akademie der Kunste (Berlin - 2012), among others.

The artist works with poetic interventions in existing objects and places, mainly through abstract language. An important characteristic of his work is the approach to natural themes, such as fruits, leaves, branches, trees and even forests. These are transformed by Daniel either through simple modifications, such as the drawing of an orange peel in a diamond pattern, in "Naranja deprimida" (2003), or the formal reinterpretations in curtained planes made of aluminum and steel in / (- \ (2013), in which the passages seem to be related to twisted branches.

Furthermore, his works are inserted subtly into the exhibition spaces, delicately occupying white walls, floors, the center of rooms, the entire space. Generally on a small scale, they require visitors to get closer to observe all the details. It is as if they were naturally inserted into those spaces, as if they were already part of them.

In "Teque-teque" (2010), a video installation, the artist shows a Brazilian rainforest filmed horizontally and in a continuous direction. The rhythm of the images is dictated by the loud and shrill sound of the teque-teque, a bird found in the Atlantic Forest. In addition to the video, next to the video, the artist also presents a guide to birds of Brazil.