Armando Andrade Tudela and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

voler leggere la schiuma

“I want to write but froth comes out,
I want to say so much but I get stuck; every spoken cipher is a sum,
every written pyramid has its core”

Cesar Vallejo, Intensity and Height, Human Poems, 1938 (posthumous)

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Metamorphic map, 2021

Armando Andrade Tudela, Strange arrangement of a skilled worker #1, 2021

voler leggere la schiuma is an impossible act, a playful and intriguing challenge.
Forms blend into one another, they transform, evolve. Their edges are undefined, you’ve got to grab them and hold them at just the right moment in order to realize what will, perhaps, remain only an intuition.

Armando Andrade Tudela, Strange arrangement of a skilled worker #2, 2021

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, geometric nature / biology, 2021

Armando Andrade Tudela and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, connected by a long friendship and a profound exchange of reflections on art, play together with the construction of forms that, despite seeming recognizable and familiar, cannot be traced back to any specific reference point, whether natural or cultural or technological.

The gallery becomes a fluid place, where at times we are invited to enter, and others we remain trapped in a section of it, forced into a sort of short circuit that continuously makes us move, see and reconsider the space, step forwards and step backwards, to check if by chance we have missed some small detail or hint that can help us interpret the works, which seem to be so clear and familiar, yet indescribable. Perhaps, instead of straining to understand them, we should surrender ourselves to emotion and dissolve with them.
voler leggere la schiuma is a place of uncertainty, a space where we must renegotiate our relationship to reality.

The two artists’ works pose continuous questions, transcending our certainties. It questions our convictions, our wish to interpret and organize the knowable into a preestablished outline, and the artists have photographed just one possible instant of this process in continuous movement, theirs, amusing themselves then by sensing what ours might be.

Installation view, 2021

Armando Andrade Tudela and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
voler leggere la schiuma

FRANCESCA MININI, Milan
14 September – 06 November, 2021

CREDITS
Courtesy the artist and Francesca Minini
Photo credit: Andrea Rossetti