Iñigo Manglano oval
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (* 1961 in Madrid ) is a Spanish-born artist who lives and works in Chicago ( Illinois , USA ).
biography
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle grew up in Bogotá ( Colombia ) and Chicago ( USA ) and obtained his bachelor's degree in art and art history as well as in Latin American and Spanish literature at Williams College ( Williamstown , Massachusetts , USA) in 1983 . In 1989 he received his Masters in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago .
Early on he worked as an artist in Chicago with young people, which led to the founding of Street-Level Youth Media in 1993 , a non-profit art institution for young people. At the same time Manglano-Ovalle carried out many independent projects, whereby his artistic work was inspired by social issues. In his works of art , he made reference to the difficulties that illegal immigrants have in the United States.
His famous film trilogy Le Baiser / The Kiss (1999), Climate (2000) and In Ordinary Time (2001) dealt with the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and its influence on modernity .
Manglano-Ovalle deals with various contents and topics such as technology , climate , immigration or the general meaning of social, political , ecological or scientific systems. He often works with others on his projects or calls on experts from various disciplines, such as engineering , architecture , genetic and climate research , astrophysics , meteorology or medical ethics , to familiarize themselves with their scientific methods with terms such as race and identity as well as promises and dangers to deal with technologies, e.g. B. in works like Cloud Prototype No. 1 (2003) or Portrait of a Young Reader (2006).
He used z. B. extraterrestrial radio signals , weather conditions and biological codes and converted pure data from them into digital video projections or created sculptures on the database using computer calculations. In the process, technically complex objects were created that were carefully thought out both formally and conceptually. These technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations use natural forms such as clouds , icebergs or DNA as metaphors to address controversial social issues such as immigration , gun violence and human cloning . His approach to depicting nature using data led, among other things, to Manglano-Ovalle dealing with human interventions in nature.
He is represented by Meulensteen Gallery and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, formerly by Max Protetch Gallery, in New York City.
Exhibitions
Manglano-Ovalle exhibited his work in renowned institutions around the world. Solo exhibitions of his work took place at the Rochester Art Center ( Minnesota ), Art Institute of Chicago (2005), Museum Haus Esters , Museum Haus Lange , Krefeld , Germany (2005), the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo , Mexico City (2004) , Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey , Mexico (2004), in the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (Ohio), the Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación "la Caixa" , Madrid (2003), Barcelona Pavilion , Fundación Mies van der Rohe , Barcelona (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) (1997) and 2013 at the Schering Foundation (Berlin).
He has also been in group exhibitions at documenta 12 , Kassel (2007), Liverpool Biennial (2004, 2006), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City , Guggenheim Museum , Bilbao (2002, 2003), Museum of Modern Art , Involved in New York City (2002), São Paulo Biennale , São Paulo (1998) and the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York (2000).
Prizes and awards
Manglano-Ovalle has received numerous prizes and awards such as the MacArthur Fellowship (2001) and the Media Arts Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts ( Columbus , Ohio ).
Web links
- Biography and pictures on artnet.de
- Homepage of Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
- Iñigo Manglano oval on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Manglano oval, Iñigo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hispanic-American visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |