Vernon Projekt – Daniel González – Social and Political Structura of Fantasy
29. 9. 2010, Prague
The exhibition is being held in the frame ot the Festival of Contemporary Art TINA B. 2010.
Daniel González (Argentina)
Daniel González (born in Argentina, 1963) lives and works in Berlin and
New York. "I mold reality to create magic. I transform it using its own
rules, changing the world one sequin at a time. This is rebellion
through beauty" Daniel González’s public projects, sequin
banner-paintings and unique wearable pieces presented in high-impact
performances create delirious, sexy and energetic worlds: spaces of
freedom where the existing conventions collapse. Since 2007, he has
worked with Italian artist Anna Galtarossa on public projects. Among
these are two large-scale works: the first, "Chili Moon Town Tour", a
utopian floating city of dreams, opened on Lago Mayor of Bosque de
Chapultepec in Mexico City in 2007. The second "Homeless Rocket With
Chandeliers", produced in Lambrate (Milan) was a crane-installation in
use in a building site, contaminated with objects and materials that
refer to street culture and the freedom it can transmit.
In 2008 Daniel González was invited to create a workshop-performance
for Manifesta 7 and since then his work has been exhibited in the
Zablidowicz Collection in London, in the Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Bordeaux and at Diana Lowenstein’s gallery in Miami.
“Apparently restless cross-cultural jammer and actually just an
unconstraint visual artist, Daniel González works non-stop at new
collections of unique pieces that he presents by means of radical and
eccentric performances. They are fifteen-minute actions squatting
social, political and power-soaked spaces giving back pure behavioural
and visual energy. “ (Andrea Lissoni)
Social and Political Structure of Fantasy
"Changing the world" is a statement mainly attributed to political and,
in the case of modernist cultural imagery, to the function of the
artist.
"Changing the world" is changing the state of reality through our own
vision, using the rules and adapting them to our own needs in order to
unleash a rebellion through beauty.
Achieving to dream reality as raw material and creating spaces of
freedom where conventions collapse, in order to still believe that we
can change the world, starting with one sequin at a time.
http://www.daniel-gonzalez.com/
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