Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's First Italian Solo Show at HangarBicocca

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, born in Barcelona in 1977 and based in Rio de Janeiro, has opened his first monographic exhibition at an Italian institution, Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. The show transforms the Shed space by opening all windows and skylights, allowing natural light to connect interior and exterior. Mangrané's work blurs boundaries between organic and artificial, animate and inanimate, drawing on phasmids (stick insects) as symbols of ambiguity. Key works include 'Phasmides' (2012), 'Orange Oranges' (2001), 'Holograma 6 (Estrutura com bicho)' (2013), 'A Transparent Leaf Instead of the Mouth' (2016-17), and 'Phantom Architecture' (2019). The exhibition aims to renegotiate the viewer's relationship with reality, using the museum as a medium rather than an isolated container. Mangrané emphasizes that the true impact occurs when visitors leave and confront the real world. The show was curated by Ginevra Bria, art critic and curator at Isisuf – International Institute of Futurism Studies in Milan.