Daniel Arango (1982) is a Colombian born, American raised artist, who roams the world making work and looking for inspiration. Previously based in New York City, he has been moving nomadically with his studio since 2011. For Arango’s most recent series, he composed intricate layered digital drawings exploring his environment in relationship to history and contemporary culture. He pulls inspiration from art objects, antiquities and buildings of the world’s great cultural institutions, namely The Metropolitan Museum and The Louvre Museum. For the Hawaiian Series he lived in the Maui jungle for four months harvesting plants and absorbing the exotic environment. Arango creates images of depth and real beauty through a detailed process of drawing from life, manipulating and playing off the images represented, to printing and applying paint, often painstakingly painted so there is no trace. Arango's family fled Colombia’s civil war when he was three, moving to Miami. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. Training in both interior design and painting influenced his art practice very much. The impact of architectonics is integral to the finished work. Arango creates tight structures within his works to act as a point of departure from which to explore a looser imagining of line and form in the composition, and to liberate the self within a rigid homogenizing society.
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Francesco Irnem (Rome, 1981) lives and works in Rome and New York.
His work is developed starting from an investigation on sculpture and painting, focusing on the relationship between natural and artificial space. His artistic production begins with painting interpreted in a traditional way, and defining himself as fascinated by Renaissance and medieval art. The first works are characterized by a strong realism, maintaining at the same time a very conceptual cut, becoming a painting based on the "demagnetization" of the same. Through a process of making videos and distortion of the images with the use of a magnet, the output obtained is a general fragmentation of them, a work that focused on the processes of alteration of information content and digital. Subsequently, his interest shifted on the need of man to adapt to the environment that surrounds him using materials that come from the shipbuilding engineering (cement, resins, and concrete) often represented as invasive structures with respect to space and natural landscape.
SELECTED SOLO/GROUP SHOWS:
Frammentazioni, Villa Blanc, LUISS, Collettivo Curatoriale LUISS Master of ART, Rome (2018);
Crossbuilding, Galleria Cinquegrana, curated by Francesca Franco, Milan (2017);
Forever never comes, Museo Archeologico, curated by Lapo Simeoni, Grosseto (2016);
Canal 05, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Bruxelles (2016);
Questa è solo una promessa di felicità, Anna Marra Contemporanea, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Rome (2015);
Centro-Periferia Venice Edition, Premio Federculture, Venice (2015);
Cosmogonie, Palazzo Collicola Arte Visiva, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Spoleto (2015);
Centro, periferie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2014);
Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome (2014);
Epipedon, Co2 Gallery, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Rome (2013);
Floating architecture, Galleria Valentina Moncada, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Rome (2012);
Un certo sguardo, Galleria Altri lavori in corso, curated by Francesca Franco, Rome (2012);
Centro periferia, Uffici Federculture, curated by Massimo Scaringella, Rome (2012);
Deleted Corner, Galleria Altri Lavori in Corso, curated by Francesca FrancoValentina Moncada, Rome (2010);
MAIN COLLECTIVE SHOWS:
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle;
National Portrait Gallery, London;
Fondazione Aristide Merloni, Rome;
Grenzen Borders, Deutsches Kulturhaus.
Diego Miguel Mirabella (1988) was born in Enna (Italy). Lives and works in Bruxelles. Graduated in Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. He is the co-founder of Limone space in London. His work is based on a study on poetry and language, in the attempt to translate those one into visual objects. His natural restlessness brings him to realize a heterogeneous body of works, that he organizes into diverse projects. In his artworks objects, sentences, drawings and images are in a continuous tension between hiding and revealing, creating as he says, “the necessary incidents to build a poem”. In many of his projects Mirabella makes use of other people's culture, imaginary and practices in order to push the borders of communication between him and them, creating artworks out of this conflict.
SELECTED SOLO/GROUP SHOWS:
Salvo me, Rome (2018);
La bocca arsa, l'Ascensore, Palermo (2018);
Prix mediatine, Mediatine, Bruxelles (2018);
Spectrum, Limone space, London (2018);
I shot mercury to make this exhibition, Nir Altman Gallery, Munich (2018);
Radieuse, Italian institute of culture in Bruxelles (2017);
Bodikon, Belmacz Gallery, London (2016);
You are invited. Content-curation/Spambot Aesthetics, Chalton Gallery, London (2016); The Habit of a Foreign Sky, FuturDome, Milan (2016);
Museo delle Palme, Orto botanico, Palermo (2015);
Trincee- lIl mondo in famme e la morte, Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome (2015);
10 years 60 th drawings, Fondazione pastificio cerere, Rome (2015);
MilanoRomaTorinoPalermo, Studi, Milano (2015);
Andiamo là, L'a project, Palermo (2014);
The grass grow, Basel (2014);
Art is real, Piazza Pasquino 69, Rome (2014);
Il peso della mia luce, Operativa artecontemporanea, Rome (2013);
Ortica, ex mattatoio, Rome (2013);
In ognuno di noi, Temple university, Rome (2012).
PRIZES:
Prix Mediatine - mention - 2018 (BE);
Special prize, Spazio Cima - winner - 2017 (IT);
Premio combat - mention - 2012 (IT);
Factory ( Macro Testaccio) - mention - 2012 (IT);
Special Prize Clima.- Talent prize - 2017 (IT).
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