(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
The theory overflows of “The Thousand Names of Gaia: from Anthropocene to the Age of the Earth” reach art and are source to Daniel Steegmann-Mangrané‘s artistic proposals. In the gardens of the Casa de Rui Barbosa are two of the Rio-based Spanish artist’s installations: “Kiti Ka’aete”, made through Guarani abstract art and the sound sculpture “Surucuá, Teque-teque, Arará”.
From the concept of Amerindian perspectivism it is possible to speculate about the breakdown of traditional division between artwork (observed) and viewer (observer), building possibilities for dynamic relationships of mutual transformations. In matters of art this means an impulse is potencialised through a new point of view of sensitive practices.
“Surucuá, Teque-teque, Arará” is in the arbor, an iron structre configurating the 40 metre course of the symmetric garden. The bird sound recording propel the perception of space and sound. From landscaping plasticity to sensorial experience, what do we listen to while we walk?
The presence of the forest in the Casa de Rui Barbosa gardens is an invitation to imaginative experience: in the urban jugle, the space-oasis between nature and artificial, art is mimicked in landscape to dissolve itself in the world. In this world of ours, which is not yet ready to be seen, but in an ordinary world that is ready to be invented.
translated from original words by Michelle Sommer, curator
“Mimetismo”, solo show by Daniel Steegmann-Mangrané
On view through 21st October
Visiting: gardens open daily from 8am to 6pm; museum open from Tuesday to Friday, from 10am to 5.30pm. Every last Tuesday of the month open until 8pm and on weekends and holidays from 2pm to 6pm
Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
Rua São Clemente, 134 – Botafogo
T.: 55 21 32894600