8 year-old size child mannequin, acrylic on found backpacks.
Description
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The artwork depicts a child's backpack featuring vibrant colors and prominent graphic designs. The front panel displays an illustration of a popular cartoon character, while the back panel showcases various stylized spaceship and astronaut motifs. The overall composition creates a dynamic and visually engaging design, likely intended to appeal to young children's interests in fantasy and adventure themes. The backpack's bold patterns and playful imagery suggest it was created with the purpose of combining functionality with a contemporary, whimsical aesthetic for a modern school or leisure accessory. ...
Dani Marcel examines the performative and institutional dimensions of contemporary art, exploring how identity, authorship, and artistic value are constructed within the gallery system. His work often merges conceptual strategies, autobiographical elements, and interactive proposals, creating situations that question the assumptions of both artists and audiences. Marcel frequently works with objects, texts, and proposals that resist predetermined conclusions, emphasizing the fluidity of artistic meaning and the role of participation in the creation of value. By framing responses, instructions, or choices from viewers as part of the artwork, he highlights the interdependence between artist, institution, and audience. Central to his practice is a critical engagement with power structures in the art world. Projects such as Gallery Poll—where participants voted on which gallery should represent him—subvert traditional hierarchies and blur the line between art object, social experiment, and institutional critique. Through these methods, Marcel transforms everyday interactions and bureaucratic systems into conceptual material. His work emphasizes process over finality, inviting reflection on the mechanisms that shape visibility, reputation, and identity in contemporary art. ...
