Photo: Patio Herreriano
Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
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Mercedes Mangrané
Asir
Mercedes Mangrané is one of the most relevant painters working today in Spain. Born in Barcelona in 1988, her work is well known for her small formats, her very personal treatment of matter and her chromatic palette, one that in spite of its apparent warmth, tends to find itself under a rare and cold luminosity.
Mercedes Mangrané’s paintings are abstract. We may feel certain about this. However, a closer look reveals an interest in achitecture and space that runs throughout her entire output, and this places her in an ambiguous situation in relation to abstraction and representation.
The exhibition in Room 9 is not a site-specific project, for these works were painted in the last few years, but it has been conceived in relation to this space, one of our best spaces for painting. The soft tonalities create a dialogue with the architecture and the frescoes that remain visible beyond the white walls. An emotional connection sparks, as the color in her work puts forth an affective flair to it all.
Many of her concerns are to do with every painter’s concerns. How to make an image visible on a picture plane. Mangrané oscillates between the poles of opacity and transparency. She tests the durability and memory of images. A recent group of works, was entitled, significantly, Figures in the mist, She asks us to rreflect upon the surfaces upon which painting exists, its textures, its roughness, its neatness. Cristales, Sutura... There is something of a ruptura and a recomposition in her work, of bodies that shatter justo ut of breathing, of being…
Biography
born 1988 in Barcelona, lives and works in Barcelona
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Gravities, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Resta, Espai19, Barcelona
2021
Patch, Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona
2020
Drainage Systems, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2019
Composicions, curated by Juan Canela, Gallery Weekend, L'Hospitalet
Asir, curated by Javier Hontoria, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
April season, Side Gallery Casavells, Girona
Susceptible, Cultural Rizoma Celrà, Girona
2018
Flirteo, Nit dels Museus, Jardí Botànic, produced with Hangar.org, Barcelona
2017
Recompensa (Reward), Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Antoni Vila Casas Painting Award 2025, Museu Can Framis, Barcelona
2024
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2023
La estética del silencio / The aesthetics of silence, Galeria MAP, Madrid
2022
Little Precious Things, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Al Alcance, Dilalica, Barcelona
2021
Let's meet under a cloud of freedom, Artphilein Foundation, Lugano
2020
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2019
Notes on Landscape, curated by Franz Thalmair, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
Premio Internacional de Arte, Fundación Maria José Jove, A Coruña
During the Building of the Great Wall of China, curated by Angel Calvo Ulloa, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia
Selected for the 8è Premi de Pintura, Torres-García group show, Fundació Iluro, Mataró
2018
Produce, produce, produced, curated by Carolina Ciuti and Xavier Acarín für Loop, Barcelona
MARDEL Visual Arts, Centre Cultural Carme, Valencia
2017
DelicARTessen 17, Galería Esther Montoriol, Barcelona
Walk on ice, curated by David Armengol, Can Palauet, Mataró
2016
DelicARTessen 15, Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona
3th Bianyal, curated by David Santaeulària, Vall de Bianya, Olot
Walk on ice, curated by David Armengol, Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Gerona
Donar joc, Major28 art space, la Floresta, Lleida
2015
Aparteu les Cadires, curated by Joana Hurtado, Can Felipa, Poblenou, Barcelona
Los lugares amenos, curated by David Armengol, Espacio AB9, Murcia
9a Biennal d’Art Leandre Cristòfol, curated by Gloria Picazo, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida
2014
El descens, Mercedes Mangrané & Gerard Ortin, Cicle Pertorbacions, Capella de St Roc, Valls, Tarragona
El cordón de plata, Cyan Gallery, Art Nou, Barcelona
Artificialia, Cyan Gallery, Barcelona
2013
Wavy Banners, THE WAVE, Norre Snede, Humlum, Vorgod-Barde, Sdr, Nissum, Denmark
Les murs du temps, Cyan Gallery, Barcelona
Materia de Ensayo, DEMOLDEN Video Project Space, Santander
El espacio cósmico estaba ahí, en dos o tres centímetros, curated by Juan Canela, Galeria Bacelos, Vigo
2012
Ouverture, Sala d’Art Jove, curated by Quico Peinado und Rachel Fendler, Barcelona
...And you will know us by the trail of bread, Karat, Cologne
2010
Lo de siempre raras veces ocurre, Halfhouse, Barcelona
Invasion of privacy, curated by Not famous yet, Oxford
Biennal d’Amposta ‘10, Centre d’Arts Visuals Terres de l’Ebre, Tarragona
S/T, Facultat de Belles Arts, Universidade da Coruña, Barcelona
Bcn Producció, La capella, Kollaboration mit Quim Packard’s project, Barcelona
9a mostra d’art jove de Mataró, espai f, Mataró
Western, Liminal Gr, Sala Off de Gracia, Barcelona
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