Daniel Medina

A large part of my work is grounded in questioning the formal content of our concept of space, how we come into contact with it, how we perceive and interpret it. Through diverse models of representation, I investigate the relationship between human beings and how we perceive our surroundings. The manual or mechanical alteration of images referencing architecture-of the landscape within the urban setting- is a constant in my work. These referent images are a connecting device between the ruins and the architecture of our contemporaneity.
Meanings, charged with materials, have been an important factor in my artistic development, in some cases serving as a pillar that sustains the discourse of the work.
Daniel Medina

TRIBU ( 53º Venice Biennale 2009)
Daniel Medina questioning figure in reference of the limits define creative processes and determine the extension of their legitimation. His work grows on a profound mastery of geometric abstraction’s very own procedures, minimalism and conceptualism, introducing new contents that modify its sense, directly based on the use of geometric structures. It is all about an intersection of languages in which the artist recuperates formal composition procedures of Abstract Art and Op Art, as a means to intervene images of maps, post cards or urban snapshots.
Maria Luz Cardenas

OUR (7º Gwangju Biennale 2008.- South Korea)
Daniel Medina has developed a strategy of dissection of both abstract and literal landscapes. He utilizes geometric structures, often suggestive of the formal exercises found in Op art or Minimalist sculpture, by manipulating a series of interconnected maps and photographs, and subsequently combining them with scenes of abstract icons and urban imagery. These compositions are photographically registered and illustrate the artist’s engagement with the re-appropriation and manipulation of otherwise familiar images. Through this method Medina has created a new depth; he has developed three-dimensional structures that intimate an ambiguous game between container and content. In a manner that playfully questions a geometric-abstract tradition of object making, Medina uses ordinary or pedestrian materials to manipulate meaning
Okwui Enwezor

CIFO ( Grant Award Recipient)
Untitled (Rio Guaire) 2008, is derived from a digital image of the Guaire River (circa 1918) extracted from the internet. The image is digitally processed, altered, broken down by sectors and reproduced in diverse materials trough different methods of representation. In this project, the image of the river is transmuted into objects and becomes a representation of “the real”. The disappearance of the “referent” as an image of the Guaire River relates with its “real” disappearance as an iconic river of Caracas. The reference of an “iconic river” has been lost, only its image remains as a document of the past, stored as codified information that interpret “image”, making use of the distinct means of reproduction for its permanence.
Cecilia Fajardo Gil

DOUBLE PERSPECTIVE (Bolivar Hall - MaddoxArt Galery - London/UK)
Daniel Medina has worked insistently on a formal dissection of landscape and geometric structures starting with maps and images of scenes of urban icons - photographically registered or re-appropriated – with which he develops three-dimensional structures in an ambiguous game between the container and the content. In like manner, playfully questioning the geometric-abstract tradition, he has Developer the series Space invader, with the use of ordinary materials – rulers and ice-cream sticks – which compose flexible structures that move along the wall.
Ruth Auerbach & Aixa Sanchez

Exposiciones (Resumen)


2009.- 53a Bienal de Venecia
7 junio -22 noviembre 2009
http://www.labiennale.org/it/

2008.-"Hecho a mano, el oficio en el arte"
Casas Riegner . Bogota / Colombia.
octubre 2008 / enero 2009.
http://arteenlared.com/latinoamerica/colombia/exposicion-colectiva-hecho-a-mano,-el-oficio-en-el-arte-removido-de-leyla-car-2.html

"The 7th Gwangju Biennale"
September-2008 . Korea del Sur.
http://www.gb.or.kr/2008gb/eng/about/Gwangju_Biennale.html

"Interrogating Systems"
CIFO 2008 Grants and Commissions
http://www.cifo.org/interrogating-systems-p73.html
Miami .USA

"DoublePerspective"
Maddox Arts , Londres
http://www.doubleperspective.com/.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mbvQNWbogPs

2007.-“Extra-Pictórico”
Corp Banca , Caracas

2006.- ARCO (Sala Mendoza)Madrid

2005.- “Muestra 0”
Periférico de Caracas

2004.- “Muestra Iberoamericana de Fotografía”
Sala Mendoza, Caracas.

“Retomando el Volumen "
Museo Alejandro Otero de Caracas.

2003.- " VI Salón Pirelli de Jóvenes Artistas".
MACCSI, CARACAS.

2002.- " III Salón Universitario de Arte”.
Universidad Central de Venezuela,Caracas.


INDIVIDUALES

Space Invaders 2006
Periférico de Caracas
Caracas/Venezuela
Ccs_box 04
Sala Mendoza
Caracas/Venezuela

RECONOCIMIENTOS

1999.- Mención Honorífica ( Pintura ) .
"Salón Municipal de Caracas Juan Lovera"

2002.- 1er Premio en Pintura.
"III Salón Universitario de Arte”.
Universidad Central de Venezuela.

2003.- 1er Premio
"VI Salón Pirelli de Jóvenes Artistas".
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber
Caracas/Venezuela

Premio TAGA
"XI Bienal de Miniaturas Gráficas Luisa Palacios".
Sala CAF.
Caracas/Venezuela

2007.- Es seleccionado para participar en el programa de subvenciones otorgado por la Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Miami