Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle ( born 1961 in Madrid ) is a Spanish -born artist who in Chicago (Illinois, USA) lives and works.

Biography

Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle grew up in Bogotá ( Colombia) and Chicago ( USA) and graduated in 1983 with a BA in art and art history as well as in Latin American and Spanish literature at Williams College ( Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA). In 1989 he received his Master degree in sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Early on, he worked in Chicago as an artist with the youth what there in 1993 to the foundation of Street - Level Youth Media carried out, a non-profit art institution for young people. At the same time led Manglano - Ovalle by many independent projects, where his art was inspired by social issues. In his works he referred inter alia to the difficulties that have illegal immigrants in the United States.

His acclaimed film trilogy Le Baiser / The Kiss (1999), Climate (2000) and In Ordinary Time ( 2001) dealt with the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and his influence on the modern world apart.

Manglano - Ovalle deals with various contents and themes apart as technology, climate, immigration or the general importance of social, political, environmental, and scientific systems. He often works on its projects with others or take experts from different disciplines to complete, such as engineering, architecture, gene and climate research, astrophysics, meteorology or medical ethics to deal with their scientific methods with concepts such as race and identity, and the promises and dangers deal of technologies, for example in works like Cloud Prototype No.. 1 (2003) and Portrait of a Young Reader ( 2006).

He used eg extraterrestrial radio signals, weather conditions and biological codes and converted pure data thereof into digital video projections to or created on the database sculptures by computer calculations. This technically complex objects, which are formally and conceptually thought through exactly emerged. These technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs or DNA as metaphors to address controversial social content such as immigration, gun violence and human cloning. His approach to map the nature above data led, among other things, that Manglano - Ovalle dealt with human interventions in nature.

He is represented by der Meulen Steen Gallery, formerly of the Max Protetch Gallery, in New York City.

Exhibitions

Manglano - Ovalle presented his work in prestigious institutions from around the world. Solo exhibitions of his works found among others in 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), 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 Ernst Schering Foundation ( Berlin).

He was also in group exhibitions, including 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, New York City (2002), Biennale of São Paulo, São Paulo (1998 ) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ( 2000) involved.

Prizes and awards

Manglano - Ovalle has received numerous prizes and awards such as the MacArthur Fellowship ( 2001) or the Media Arts Award of the Wexner Center for the Arts ( Columbus, Ohio).