Angela DETANICO (1974), Rafael LAIN (1973)
Born in Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Live and work in Paris, France
Solo Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibition, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- Sobre o Infinito, o Universo e os Mundos, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
- Vera Cortês Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
- Two Voices, LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
- Sky Flowers, Seishodo Yamashita The Room, Kyoto, Japan
- Flowering of Light, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Replay, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Light words, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Marquise, MAM et Parc d’Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Akris x Artnews Japan, Reimagining the values vol.1, rebirth Reverse construction, Abris Salon, Tokyo, Japan
- Two Voices, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sobre a Terra, sob o céu, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
- Danaé,Sainte Cécile Church, Ceillac, France
- Lumière, Museum of European and European Civilisations (Mucem), Marseille, France
- Corps Célestes, Gallery Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
- Persévérance, Gallery LMNO, Brussels, Belgium
- Perspective, Regional center for photography of Hauts-de-France (CRP/), Douchy-les-Mines, France
- Solution d’une question curieuse qui ne paraît soumise à aucune analyse, Gallery Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Unfolding Artist’s Mind, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
- En Mouvement, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan
- Diálogos, Galerie Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
- Centro PárragaEscrituras Ácratas, Murcia, Spain
- Playtime, Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico, Mexico, by Violeta Horcasitas
- Oblique Strategies, Gallery Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Metamorphoses, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Between yesterday and Tomorrow, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
- Meteorologica, Porto Seguro Cultural Space, São Paulo, Brazil
- Archipel, Musée de l’Habbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France
- SESTRUTURA, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
- Oceans, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Bruxelles, Belgique
- 27 Rue de Fleurus, Galerie Vermelho, San Paulo, Brazil
- AO MESMO TEMPO, Ambassade du Brésil à Tokyo, Japan
- Letter pieces (on the revolutions), Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
- Cascada de Silencio, Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico D.F., Mexico
- 12 13 14 15, Galerie LMNO, Brussels, Belgique
- Sobre o Céu, Galeria Galerie Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
- Una línea mil palabras, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia
- Comme des gouttes de pluie sur la lune, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Amplitude, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
- Alfabeto Infinito, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Weightless Days, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
- Rio corrente, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
- Le jardin des heures, Les arts au mur, Pessac, France
- Two Voices, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Lessico, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
- Formas de dizer, Galeria Galerie Vera Cortês, Lisbon, Portugal
- Sobre Cor, Galerie Vermelho São Paulo, Brazil
- 179 Canal Façade-Univers, 179 Canal, New York, USA
- Detanico y Lain, Galería Moro, Santiago, Chile
- Horizon Vague, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Léxico, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
- Wind Spelling, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
- Espaços de tempo, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
- 25/24, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
- Um dado tempo, um dado lugar, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Il silenzio dell’Eclisse, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
- Mean Sun, Les églises centre d’art contemporain, Chelles, France
- 52. Biennale di Venezia-Padiglione Brasile Venice (in duo with José Damasceno), Venice, Italy
- Inverse Times, Musée Zadkine, Paris
- Novas Utopias, MAMAM Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil, Detanico/Lain, Optica, Montreal, Canada
- Detanico/Lain, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
- Ano Zero, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, BrazilEquation du temps, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
- After Utopia, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
flow/wolf, La BF15, Lyon, France
- About to say, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
- Drawing Now – Art Fair, LMNO, Paris, France
- Mardin Biennal, 6th biennial, further Away, Mardin, Turkey
- Frieze London, frieze Sculpture 2024, Gallery Vera Cortês, the Regent’s Park, London, U-K
- Art Brussels 2024, Gallery Vera Cortês, Brussels Expo, Brussels, Belgique
- Nariwa Museum, Takahashi, Japan
- Galerie Vera Cortês, Much Ado About Nothing, Lisbonne, Portugal
- Galerie Vermelho, Casa no céu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie LMNO, Jardin expérimental, Bois de Fa, Grez-Doiceau, Belgique
- Huidenclub, Soundtrack for a Troubled Time, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- MAC VAL, À mains nues, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Missing, Paris, France
- Hospice Saint-Roch Museum, Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée, Licence Libres, Issoudun, France
- Galerie LMNO, Limited Edition Art Fair (LEAF), Brussels, Belgique
- The Club Echoes for the future, Tokyo, Japan
- Kudan House The Still Point, Tokyo, Japan
- Collection Lambert L comme Lambert, Avignon, France
- 22.º Bienal de Arte Paiz, Fundación Nacional para las Bellas Artes y la Cultura Antigua, Guatemala
- Biennial of the Americas Denver, USA
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Les tiroirs du temps de Jacques Roubaud, Paris, France
- Museu Casa Kubitschek Outras Habitabilidades, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- Maison Pelgims, rosa rosa rosae rosae, Brussels, Belgique
- The Club Unfolding Artist’s Mind, Tokyo, Japan
- Villa Kujoyama En Mouvement, Kyoto, Japan
- Maison des Arts Tomber en Amour, Brussels, Belgique
- Galeria Galerie Vera Cortês Diálogos, Lisbon, Portugal
- Société d’Électricité From Translating to Transcoding, Brussels, Belgique
- Museu Brasileiro da Escultura Obras-Projeto, São Paulo, Brazil
- Centro Párraga Escrituras Ácratas, Murcia, Spain
- Casa del Lago UNAM Playtime, Mexico City, Mexico
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Oblique Strategies, Paris, France
- Grand Palais La lune, Paris, France
- MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio O Rio dos Navegantes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Fundação Amélia de Mello Os olhos escutam, Lisbon, Portugal
- IMEC Abbaye d’Ardenne Les titres courants – Collections Frac Normandie Caen, Saint-Germain la Blanche-Herbe, France
- Château de Rentilly D – collection du Frac Île-de-France, Rentilly, France
- L’Art Pur Gallery La Rive D’en Face, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya The other side of the wind, Paris, France
- Le Silo Marines, France*
- Galerie LMNO Régénérations, Brussels, Belgique
- The Club Dialogue, Tokyo, Japan
- La Base sous-marine Medio Acqua, Bordeaux, France
- Tlön Projects One Thing Plus Another Thing or One Thing Minus Another Thing, The Hague, Netherlands
- Laboratorio Arte Alameda/National Institute of Fine Arts Another visit with the sculpture, Mexico City, Mexico
- EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art Unpacking My Library, Athens, Greece
- Fondation Hippocrène Multitudinous Seas, Paris, France
- Centro de Pesquisa e formação do Sesc, Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin Tarefas Infinitas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Pavilhão Japonês Parque Ibirapuera Kyojitsu-Hiniku: between the skin and the flesh of Japan, São Paulo, Brazil
- Alameda Campinas 737 Saudosa Maloca, São Paulo, Brazil
- Collection Lambert Avignon, France
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Prologue#1, Paris, France
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Playlist, Paris, France
- Château de Servières À l’heure du dessin, 6e temps -Tracé, Marseille, France
- Moderna Museet Manipulate the world, Stockholm, Sweden
- MUDAM Flatland, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Nuit Blanche Kyoto Une autre poème, Kyoto, Japan
- Cité Internationale des Arts Viva Villa!, Paris, France
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs Graphic Design Festival, Paris, France
- Pavilhão Branco e Pavilhão Preto Potência e Adversidade, Lisbon, Portugal
- Société Modus Operandi, Brussels, Belgique
- Le Silo Marines, France
- Sala de Arte Santander Punto de Partida, Madrid, Spain
- La Centrale Private Choices, Brussels, Belgique
- Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro Manifesto Gráfico, São Paulo, Brazil
- FIESP Ready made in Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Invitation without exhibition, Paris, France
- Blindarte Contemporanea Natura Plastica, Milan, Italy
- Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain Nîmes Nouvelles Vagues, Nîmes, France
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Fireflies in the night take wing, Athens, Greece
- MuBE Paisagens Invisíveis, São Paulo, Brazil
- Museu de Artes e Ofícios Lupa: Ensaios Audiovisuais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Instituto Tomie Ohtake Os muitos e o um, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Quelques manuscrits trouvés dans une cervelle…, Paris, France
- OMIA – One minute in art, Paris, France
- Hangar Crosswords, Lisbon, Portugal
- Phenomenon (1) Anafi, Greece
- Nuit Blanche THUOS/HTRON: the New Coordinates of America for Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada
- Anozero: Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal
- La Virreina Centre de la Imatge Writing Diffraction, Barcelona, Spain
- Leal Rios Foundation As The Earth Spins Beneath The Stars, Lisbon, Portugal
- Le Silo Marines, France
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Project 35 Volume 2, Moscow, Russia
- Musée Saint-Croix Engagements, Poitiers, France
- Centro Cívic Can Felipa Fins i tot un paisatge tranquil…, Barcelona, Spain
- Frac Franche-Comté Le Monde Selon…, Besançon, France
- Proyecto Paralelo OBJECTSFOODROOMS, Mexico D.F., Mexico
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Conversations sur l’invisible, Paris, France
- Cité de la Céramique Sèvres Outdoors 2015, Sèvres, France
- Hôtel Windsor Festival O.V.N.I., Nice, France
- The Goma El buen caligrama, Madrid, Spain
- Main d’oeuvres Les motifs su savoir, Saint-Ouen, France
- Wexner Center for the Arts Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Columbus, USA
- CA2M PER/FORM, Madrid, Spain*
- MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio Há escolas que são gaiolas e há escolas que são asas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Itaú Cultural Cidade gráfica, São Paulo, Brazil
- MAC Lyon Imagine Brazil Lyon, France
- United Artists for Yvon Lambert Everytime you turn a page, it dies, a little, Paris, France
- Centro Cultural Minas Tênis Clube Afetividades Eletivas Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Museu Vale Reinventando o Mundo, Vitória, Brazil
- Zacheta – National Gallery of Art Kocham i nienawidze Ligie Clark, Warsaw, Poland
- Palácio das Artes Escavar o Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Instituto Tomie Ohtake Tomie Ohtake – Correspondências, São Paulo, Brazil
- Centro Cultural Correios Tomie Ohtake – Correspondências, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Galerie Yvon Lambert A stone left unturned, Paris, France
- Galeria Luiza Strina Secret Codes, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galería Distrito 4 Extranjero, Madrid, Spain
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Taratantara, Paris, France
- Galería Nuble Sssh! Del silencio un lenguaje, Santander, Spain
- Main d’oeuvres Collection Joseph Kouli, Saint-Ouen, France
- Trondheim Kunstmuseum The Spiral and the Square Exercises in Translatability, Trondheim, Norway
- SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum The Spiral and the Square Exercises in Translatability, Kristiansand, Norway
- Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix Explorateurs, Les Sables d’Olonne, France
- Fondation d’entreprise Ricard This & There, Paris, France
- NGBK/Kunstraum Kreuzberg In Other Words / Blackmarket of Translation, Berlin, Germany
- Palexco This is Brazil! 1990-2012, La Corogne, Spain
- Cneai Promenadologues #1, Chatou, France
- Rhizome The Download – october 2012, http://rhizome.org/the-download/
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Le ciel bientôt sera trop court, Paris, France
- Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende Más allá de la xilografía, Santiago, Chile
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Tourne-toi, Paris, France
- Théâtre National de Chaillot A Rebours, Paris, France
- École des Beaux-arts de Saint-Omer Traits contemporains, Saint-Omer, France
- SESC Santo André Instante:experiência/acontecimento, Santo André, Brazil
- L’Atelier Le chat est dans la forêt, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
- Galeria Mendes Wood Repeat to fade, São Paulo, Brazil
- CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Harboring Tone and Place, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
- Museu Colecção Berardo Mappamundi, Lisbon, Portugal
- Bonniers Konsthall The Spiral and the Square Exercises in Translatability, Stockholm, Sweden
- Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon C’est l’amour à la plage, Sérignan, France
- The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Telefone Sem Fio: The Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited, New York, USA
- Domaine Pommery La Fabrique Sonore, Reims, France
- 8ª Bienal do Mercosul Ensaios de Geopoética, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Le Grand Café GSM – Geo Sound Map, Saint-Nazaire, France
- MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Um outro lugar, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Mr. Memory, Paris, France
- SESC Campinas Instante:experiência/acontecimento, Campinas, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Contra a parede, São Paulo, Brazil
- CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Living under the same roof, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
- Centro Cultural Usiminas Paisagem incompleta, Ipatinga, Brazil
- Museo de Arte de Zapopan Epílogo, Zapopan, Mexico
- Galeries Poirel Drawing time/Le temps du dessin, Nancy, France
- Palais Bénédictine Les élixirs de Panacée, Fécamp, France
- Espace de l’Art Concret Le temps des manifestes, Mouans-Sartoux, France
- Instituto Tomie Ohtake Ponto de Equilíbrio, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Martin Janda De frente al Sol, Vienna, Austria
- Musée des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque Vous êtes ici…, Dunkerque, France
- Oi Futuro Belo Horizonte Arte e novas espacialidades, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Bienal Brasileira de Design 2010 Sustentabilidade: e eu com isso?, Curitiba, Brazil
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Narcissa, Paris, France
- Galeria Galerie Vera Cortês 2 de Copas, Lisbon, Portugal
- Café au lit Plateforme Roven, Paris, France
- Blindarte Contemporanea Undefined borders for unlimited perceptions, Naples, Italy
- Décima Bienal de la Havana La Havana, Cuba
- PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli Los Impoliticos, Naples, Italy
- Gallery 32 Collector Collecting, London, England
- Temple Bar Gallery Volume V – I think I remember, Dublin, Ireland
- Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea A sombra da Historia/Os contextos que veñen, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Artspace Mash Up, Auckland, New Zeland
- Mostra d’oltremare Glad to invite you, Naples, Italy
- 28 rue du Château d’eau 169A2, Paris, France
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Paris, France
- Galerie Vermelho PH Neutro, São Paulo, Brazil
- 28ª Bienal de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil
- La Galerie centre d’art contemporain Matière à paysage, Noisy-le-Sec, France
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art Translation, Moscow, Russia
- VIème Biennale Internationale Design 2008 Saint-Étienne 2036, Saint-Étienne, France
- Galerie Vermelho Looks Conceptual or How I mistook a Carl Andre for a pile of bricks, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Olivari-Veys Initial, Brussels, Belgique
- Emerging Wor(l)ds Prague, Czech Republic
- Galeria Galerie Vera Cortês Tongue Twister, Lisbon, Portugal
- Road Records Underground, Dublin, Ireland
- De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics Visual Foreign Correspondents, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Centro Cultural São Paulo Reação em Cadeia, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Silêncio, São Paulo, Brazil
- Namura Art Meeting Weightless Days, Osaka, Japan
- Galerie Martine Aboucaya Close up, Paris, France
- LIA – Lieu d’Images et d’Art Nébuleuses, Grenoble, France
- Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Re-trait, Paris, France
- Dominique Perrault Architecture Oeuvres de la collection Billarant, Paris, France
- Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española Cart(ajena), Cartagena, Colombia
- MNAC – Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana/Bucuresti Accidents, Bucharest, Romania
- Encuentro Internacional Medellín 07 Medellín, Colombia
- Luz ao Sul – São Paulo/Valencia Biennial Valencia, Spain
- Oboro Traveling Without Moving, Montreal, Canada
- 16º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil São Paulo, Brazil
- SESC Pompéia Recortar e Colar -CRTL+C_ CRTL+V, São Paulo, Brazil
- Randall Scott Gallery All things said, in Motion, Washington DC, USA
- In situ/Fabienne Leclerc Du sonore et du visuel 2, Paris, France
- Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
- 27ª Bienal de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil
- La Ferme du Buisson Weightless Days/Flatland Extended, Noisiel, France
- Frac des Pays de la Loire All that is solid melts into air, Carquefou, France
- Le plateau/Frac Ile-de-France Sudden Impact, Paris, France
- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka L’usage du monde, Rijeka, Croatia
- Pode Bal Samuel Morse meets Brian Wilson, Paris, France
- Frac Lorraine Antipodes, Metz, France
- PhotoEspaña Madrid, Spain
- Pavillon la Rural ARTEBA 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Galerie de l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes Le corps du paysage, Valenciennes, France
- Palais de Tokyo La Cabane, Paris, France
- Henry Moore Institute Espaço Aberto/Espaço Fechado: sites for sculpture in modern Brazil, Leeds, England
- ICC Open Nature, Tokyo, Japan
- De Appel Radiodays, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Württembergischer Kunstverein On Difference #1, Stuttgart, Germany
- Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie Wharf, Saint-Clair, France
- 15º Festival Inter. de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil, Sound Waves for Selected Landscapes, São Paulo, Brazil
- Malba – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires Subversiones diarias, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Art Cologne Neither Focus, Cologne, Germany
- Seoul Museum of Art 3rd Media_City_Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
- 9ª Mostra Internazionale di Architettura/Padiglione Brasile Venice, Italy
- Nam June Paik Award Dortmund, Germany
- 26ª Bienal de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil
- Paço das Artes Em Tempo sem Tempo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Paralela São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Derivas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Bem-vindo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Vol., São Paulo, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Fachada São Paulo, Brazil
- Palais de Tokyo GNS/Le Pavillon, Paris, France
- 14º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil Dobra, São Paulo, Brazil
- Printemps de Septembre Toulouse, France
- Cité Internacionale des Arts Paris, France
- Intershop Südstattsüd Karlsruhe, Germany
- Palais de Tokyo Incomprehension, Paris, France
- Solar da Baronesa Imagética, Curitiba, Brazil
- Galerie Vermelho Modos de Usar, São Paulo, Brazil
- Ginza Graphic Gallery Graphic Shows Brazil, Tokyo, Japan
- Palais de Tokyo Oo, Paris, France
- Galerie Vermelho São Paulo, Brazil
- MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna São ou Não São Gravuras?, São Paulo, Brazil
- Itaú Cultural Ruído do Silêncio, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Selected Collections
- Andrea e José Olympio Pereira (São Paulo)
- CIFO – The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami)
- CNAP (France)
- Collection Lambert (Avignon)
- Coppel Collection (Mexico)
- FMAC (Paris)
- FRAC Île de France (Paris)
- FRAC Normandie (Caen)
- Fundação Leal Rios (Lisboa)
- Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (Ribeirão Preto)
- Kadist Collection (Paris)
- Kerenedis Pepe (Paris)
- Le Silo – Collection Billarant (Paris)
- MacVal (Paris)MAM (São Paulo)
- MAMAM (Recife)
- MAR (Rio de Janeiro)
- MASC – Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix (Sables d’Olonne)
- MuBE (São Paulo)Musée du Louvre (Paris)
- Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
- Pinacoteca (São Paulo)Taguchi Art Collection (Tokyo)
ESP
Casado Santapau se complace en presentar Espacios de tiempo, la exposición del dúo artístico Detanico Lain, formado por Angela Detanico (Brasil, 1974) y Rafael Lain (Brasil, 1973). La muestra supone la primera presentación del dúo en Madrid.
Desde 1996, Detanico Lain desarrolla una práctica situada en la intersección entre arte, lenguaje y sistemas de significación. Su colaboración une dos formaciones complementarias, la semiótica y la lingüística, por un lado, y el diseño gráfico y la tipografía por otro, dando lugar a una investigación sostenida sobre los códigos que organizan nuestra experiencia del mundo. Su trabajo cuestiona la aparente neutralidad de los sistemas de representación y examina cómo signos, convenciones gráficas y protocolos culturales modelan nuestra percepción de lo real.
Interesados en estructuras que exceden la escala humana, como ciclos naturales, datos científicos, configuraciones astronómicas o construcciones filosóficas, los artistas elaboran métodos precisos mediante los cuales transforman información en forma. El lenguaje deja de ser únicamente un medio de comunicación para convertirse en materia plástica y conceptual. A través de sistemas de escritura alternativos, donde las letras tradicionales son sustituidas por objetos, cantidades o fenómenos, el signo adquiere dimensión espacial y física, desplazándose al ámbito de la experiencia.
Su aproximación se inscribe en la tradición del arte conceptual, donde la idea precede y estructura la forma. Reduciendo la visualidad a elementos esenciales, como líneas, tramas, alfabetos, estructuras, Detanico Lain evidencian que toda representación está mediada por convenciones culturales. Esta economía formal no implica austeridad, sino una intensificación perceptiva: las obras requieren lectura, atención y tiempo.
Las obras reunidas en la exposición desarrollan estas cuestiones desde distintas aproximaciones formales. P.E.R.S.P.E.C.T.I.V.A presenta configuraciones geométricas que funcionan como piezas estructurales de un vocabulario visual donde línea, forma y espacio constituyen el significado mismo, alejadas de toda dimensión narrativa. En A.H.O.R.A, el tiempo se convierte en eje conceptual sin recurrir al reloj como objeto, mediante animaciones, diagramas o proyecciones la obra explora cómo la duración puede representarse, medirse o escribirse, integrando percepción y temporalidad en la experiencia.
Con V.I.S.T.A, varias piezas con flores dispuestas en jarrones se organizan en secuencias alfabéticas o conceptuales, el orden de los elementos naturales sugiere una lectura visual que vincula naturaleza y sistema simbólico. En HORIZONTE, a partir de páginas de libros de Jorge Luis Borges donde aparece la palabra horizonte, los artistas seleccionan y aíslan frases que disponen en cuartillas como dispositivos de lectura. La obra toma el horizonte como concepto y figura visual, línea límite entre cielo y tierra siempre visible e inalcanzable, y emplea un procedimiento de selección y apagamiento textual cercano a la poesía concreta, donde el lenguaje no solo comunica sino que organiza y determina lo visible y lo silenciado. Por su parte, M.I.R.A, composición en madera pintada dividida en cuatro elementos, trabaja la noción de “canto”, no como sonido literal, sino como fragmento visual y lingüístico. Formas geométricas, color y repetición operan como unidades modulares de un lenguaje abstracto, remitiendo tanto a la estructura de las letras como a patrones sistemáticos de organización.
En conjunto, estas esculturas y estructuras se conectan con una pregunta central en la práctica de Detanico Lain, cómo rehacer la escritura, el orden y la lectura a partir de sistemas visuales que funcionen también como objetos. Su trabajo no trata de representar palabras, sino de crear sistemas donde lenguaje, forma y percepción se cruzan, como si cada obra constituyera una gramática visual autónoma. Esta investigación encuentra resonancia en proyectos recientes, como su actual exposición en el FRAC Sud, donde proponen instalaciones que conectan luz, tiempo, flores y universo. Allí, imágenes de florecimiento y cuerpos celestes se yuxtaponen en proyecciones inmersivas que invitan a reflexionar sobre ciclos vitales y cósmicos, ampliando las líneas de trabajo presentes en Espacios de tiempo.
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Casado Santapau is pleased to present Espacios de tiempo (Spaces of Time), the exhibition by the artistic duo Detanico Lain, formed by Angela Detanico (Brazil, 1974) and Rafael Lain (Brazil, 1973). The exhibition marks the duo’s first presentation in Madrid.
Since 1996, Detanico Lain has developed a practice situated at the intersection of art, language, and systems of signification. Their collaboration brings together two complementary backgrounds, semiotics and linguistics on the one hand, and graphic design and typography on the other, giving rise to a sustained investigation into the codes that organize our experience of the world. Their work questions the apparent neutrality of systems of representation and examines how signs, graphic conventions, and cultural protocols shape our perception of reality.
Interested in structures that exceed the human scale, such as natural cycles, scientific data, astronomical configurations, or philosophical constructions, the artists devise precise methods through which they transform information into form. Language ceases to be solely a means of communication and becomes plastic and conceptual material. Through alternative writing systems, where traditional letters are replaced by objects, quantities, or phenomena, the sign acquires a spatial and physical dimension, shifting into the realm of experience.
Their approach is rooted in the tradition of conceptual art, where the idea precedes and structures form. By reducing visuality to essential elements, such as lines, grids, alphabets, structures, Detanico Lain make evident that all representation is mediated by cultural conventions. This formal economy does not imply austerity, but rather a perceptual intensification: the works require reading, attention, and time.
The works brought together in the exhibition develop these questions through different formal approaches. P.E.R.S.P.E.C.T.I.V.A presents geometric configurations that function as structural components of a visual vocabulary in which line, form, and space constitute meaning itself, removed from any narrative dimension. In A.H.O.R.A, time becomes the conceptual axis without resorting to the clock as an object, through animations, diagrams, or projections the work explores how duration can be represented, measured, or written, integrating perception and temporality into the experience.
With V.I.S.T.A, several pieces with flowers arranged in vases are organized into alphabetical or conceptual sequences, the ordering of natural elements suggests a visual reading that links nature and symbolic system. In HORIZONTE, based on pages from books by Jorge Luis Borges in which the word horizonte appears, the artists select and isolate phrases that they arrange on sheets as reading devices. The work takes the horizon as both concept and visual figure, the boundary line between sky and earth that is always visible and unattainable, and employs a procedure of textual selection and erasure akin to concrete poetry, where language not only communicates but also organizes and determines what is visible and what is silenced. M.I.R.A, a composition in painted wood divided into four elements, works with the notion of canto, not as literal sound, but as visual and linguistic fragment. Geometric forms, color, and repetition operate as modular units of an abstract language, referring both to the structure of letters and to systematic patterns of organization.
Taken together, these sculptures and structures connect to a central question in the practice of Detanico Lain, how to remake writing, order, and reading from visual systems that also function as objects. Their work does not aim to represent words, but to create systems in which language, form, and perception intersect, as if each work constituted an autonomous visual grammar. This research resonates in recent projects, such as their current exhibition at FRAC Sud, where they propose installations that connect light, time, flowers, and universe. There, images of blossoming and celestial bodies are juxtaposed in immersive projections that invite reflection on vital and cosmic cycles, expanding the lines of inquiry present in Spaces of Time.