
September 20, 2017—January 7, 2018
14th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale
Floating Worlds with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Transparent Leaf Instead Of The Mouth, 2016-17 Glass, metal, ecosystem with stick and leaf insects 250 x 500 x 500 cm Photo © Andrea Rossetti
Press Release
“To meld the interior and exterior of an exhibition is one of the first duties of art: the museum space can no longer be a space for the accumulation of artefacts, insulated and protected from the outside world, but must become a place where our relationship to objects and reality is reconfigured.” This is one of the challenges of the Spanish artist Daniel Steegman Mangrané. Inside a vast vivarium, he makes use of tropical growth...