Since its founding, the New Museum, one of the most important contemporary art institutions, has been organising an international triennial devoted to emerging artists in the world.
For 2015, the New Museum has invited Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané to develop and produce his Kiti Ka’até project and present it during the triennial. This is the artist’s first exhibition in the United States.
On this occasion the artist, whose practices include videos, drawings and large-scale installations, has produced a 10’ video of the Brazilian forest using a camera with a mechanised arm designed especially for the project. Its name, Kiti Ka’até, is a blend of the terms Kiti, which in the native Brazilian language means a ‘cut made by a sharp manmade instrument’, and Ka’até, which designates the deep forest inhabited by the gods. This film, inspired by the first anthropological films and made entirely in the Brazilian forest, consists of footage filmed while the camera follows a group of mechanical movements which, by capturing the surrounding landscape, subordinate the film narration to the camera’s encounter with the forest. It was filmed during the spring of 2014, post-production was carried out in the summer during the artist’s residency at the New Museum and the film is to be presented during the museum’s triennial from 25 February to 24 May 2015.
AC/E is collaborating with the New Museum by supporting the architect Daniel Steegman Mangrané’s production.
For 2015, the New Museum has invited Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané to develop and produce his Kiti Ka’até project and present it during the triennial. This is the artist’s first exhibition in the United States.
On this occasion the artist, whose practices include videos, drawings and large-scale installations, has produced a 10’ video of the Brazilian forest using a camera with a mechanised arm designed especially for the project. Its name, Kiti Ka’até, is a blend of the terms Kiti, which in the native Brazilian language means a ‘cut made by a sharp manmade instrument’, and Ka’até, which designates the deep forest inhabited by the gods. This film, inspired by the first anthropological films and made entirely in the Brazilian forest, consists of footage filmed while the camera follows a group of mechanical movements which, by capturing the surrounding landscape, subordinate the film narration to the camera’s encounter with the forest. It was filmed during the spring of 2014, post-production was carried out in the summer during the artist’s residency at the New Museum and the film is to be presented during the museum’s triennial from 25 February to 24 May 2015.
AC/E is collaborating with the New Museum by supporting the architect Daniel Steegman Mangrané’s production.
