Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: Branch With Blades. Edition of 11 pieces (5 available).

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Branch with blades, 2024
Cherry branch and brass, with pine wood base
Cherry branch: 17 cm, brass leaf: 11 cm, pine wood base structure: 20x11x2.5cm

Edition of 11 (All unique)
5/11 available

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Branch with blades, is the latest work from an ongoing series of sculptures by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, using found branches and twigs, which are carefully altered, split in two or partially incised to hold delicate metal leaves. In a variety of configurations, whether suspended, posed or hung, these pieces bring effects of symmetry, tension, and balance into play. This edition is the first in the series to integrate brass blades of grass handmade and oxidized by the artist. The central twigs are pierced and the blades are suspended through the wood. The edition comes with a wooden support and can be displayed upright with positioned in the base, flat on a surface or hung on the wall.

Born and educated in Barcelona, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané lived and worked for many years in Rio de Janeiro. He is part of the generation of artists that began their production at the beginning of this century. The artists’ varied techniques and media include film, sound, drawing, kaleidoscopic collages, photography, sculpture and gardens. Nature is a constant in his work, which explores the contamination and affinity of forms that exist between nature, art and architecture. Concerned with the global ecological crisis, he believes that any change in the natural environment also modifies our own nature. Both in his sculptures, which are extremely fragile and incorporate altered organic material, and in his filmic work, the artist experiments with the correspondences between organic and geometric forms, and with the complex network of dependencies between natural order and the order created by human beings.

Solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Münster (2020), Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2019), Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (2019), Nottingham Contemporary (2019), CCS Bard College, New York State (2018), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2018), Fundaçaô Serralves, Porto (2017), Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín (2016) and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (2015). He has participated in biennials and triennials in Lyon, Berlin, New York, Paris, Porto Alegre and São Paulo, among others. His work is included in the collections of Tate Modern, London; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Serralves, Porto; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León; Fundació “la Caixa” and MACBA, Barcelona.

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