Daniel Steegmann Mangrané e Philipp Van Snick
09/05/2015 — 11/01/2015
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ) / Casa Modernista (São Paulo)
Conceived in two chapters, for two cities, and for two unique spaces of modernist Brazilian architecture – the Museum of Modern Art [Museu de Arte Moderno], in Rio de Janeiro, and the Casa Modernista, in São Paulo -, the exhibitions of the artists Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Philippe Van Snick are mainly intended to underline the dualism and simultaneity in the work of both.
If, for Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (born 1977), the artistic process takes place in the dialog between division and union, between geometric and organic forms, and between culture and nature, for Philippe Van Snick (1946), on the other hand, the conditions of material perception are determined by mathematical and arithmetical principles (especially in his early works), and more recently by the sensibility which, according to the artist, is a “form of mental perception”. In the work of both, the views and experience (physical, subjective, political) of the spectator acquire a provisional and fragmented character, and relate, kaleidoscopically, to the distribution of the elements in the surrounding world.
The two exhibitions bring together their own dynamic, and it is not necessary to see one to know how the other’s “story ends”. If they resemble anything, it would be an echo, the same sound heard differently.
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