Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, former student of EINA, is exhibiting at MACBA A Leaf Shapes the Eye, a show in which he addresses the social and ecological urgencies of the present, and which is open from 16 November to 20 May. This exhibition, the artist's first retrospective, brings together drawings, paintings, photographs, holograms, sculptures, films and installations.
Taking as his starting point the tropical rainforest as a living being that materialises the urgencies facing the contemporary world, Daniel Steegmann brings together 25 years of a career of work that brings ecology into dialogue with politics and social urgencies, which the artist knows well, having lived for two decades in Brazil.
"Art has the ability to transform our relationship to the world. I like to think of my exhibitions not as conclusions, but as starting points: what matters is not the exhibition itself, but what happens when you leave the museum and face reality again," says Daniel Steegmann.
This anthology, curated by Hiuwai Chu, head of exhibitions at MACBA, together with João Laia and Piia Oksanen, chief curator and curator of temporary exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, is accompanied by the publication of the artist's book A Leaf Shapes the Eye, which chronologically reviews Steegmann's twenty-five-year career and includes facsimiles of notes and sketches.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's work has been exhibited in centres such as the Kunsthalle Münster, Hangar Bicocca, the Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Nottingham Contemporary, the CCS Bard College in New York, the Fundació Tàpies, the Fundação Serralves in Oporto, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín and the Museo de Río de Janeiro, among others.
Cover image: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, La Pensée Férale (detail), 2020
