Daniel Medina
Works * CV * PDF portfolio
Exhibitions:
ARCO 2013
The Antagonist
ViennaFair 2011
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)
Daniel Medina, IS/ON, 2011
POP badges, electrical motors, light bulbs
Materials from the Venezuela Presidential Referendum held in 2004, intended to revoke the stay of Hugo Chavez as the head of state.
Daniel Medina, Espejo, 2011
mirror, vibrating massage machine
Daniel Medina, New Order, 2011
puzzle map
Daniel Medina, Sueteres (todosomosnosotros), 2011
ready-to wear sweatshirts, dimensions variable
Daniel Medina, Birdcage (Façade), 2011
50x51x39cm
installation view at Momentum Biennale, 2011, Norway
Daniel Medina, State Buildings, 2010
laser-cut plywood, dimensions variable
Daniel Medina, Bi-Polar Territory, 2008-09
maps, incisions
Daniel Medina, Hi-Birds, 2011
found prints, incisions, 15x25cm
Daniel Medina, Im-Posters, 2010
Photo-montages made from the photographic record of the work exhibited and curated by Wolfgang Tillmans in the Universal Hall of the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009, together with the permanent collection of Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and the image of a mural 'street' in the popular neighborhood in Caracas '23 de Enero'
Daniel Medina, AC-DC, 2009
instllation view in the Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2009
Daniel Medina, Our (Is-Land), 2008
maps, grass
installation view at Gwangju Biennale, 2008
Daniel Medina, Interrogating Systems, 2008
found postcard image, laser-cut MDF
installation view at Cisneros Foundation, 2008
Daniel Medina, Space Invaders, 2006
sketches, photographic paper, 30x40cm
Daniel Medina, Map Box, 2006
maps, incisions, 30x21x2cm
Daniel Medina, Afiche, 2006
paper, incisions, 79x55cm