DANIEL OTERO TORRES




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ABOUT


The work of Daniel Otero Torres is grounded on the re-construction of ideology through drawings done by hand over aluminium and steel. Moving in the frontier between drawing and sculpture, Otero Torres’ origami-like constructions appear at first as uncanny grand-format black and white photographs. Upon closer inspection, one realises the images are in fact handmade drawings, laboriously done with graphite pencils over a flat surface that has the visual weightlessness of paper but the actual density of metal.

The artist’s unusual technique succeeds in creating a dislocation of materials as well as of contexts: his images often represent not a single individual but a visual and historical collage created from a number of sources: from antique archives and books, to found images in contemporary newspapers or online sources that reflect the artist’s process of understanding the role of marginalised or largely ignored populations that have, nonetheless, played essential roles in recent and past history around the world.



His works have been exhibited in numerous institutions such as the MACAAL, Marrakech; the Espacio 23 of the Jorge Perez Collection, Miami; Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain MRAC Sérignan, France, including his solo exhibition (Dé)placements (2017) and the collective show Bandes à part (2018); CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, Chine (2017); Contemporary Art Centre of Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes, France (2016); Kunstverein Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany (2014); Heidelberg Kunstverein, Germany (2011); and the Bullukian Foundation, Lyon, France (2010), among others. Recent projects include large scale installations in La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France (2019); FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles, US (2019); and Drawing Lab Paris, France (2021).

Daniel Otero Torres has been a resident of the Villa Belleville (2015-2016); Moly-Sabata Residency in Les Sablons, France (2014); the Cité des arts de Paris (2011-2012), and L’attrape-couleurs in Lyon, France. He has been Laureate at the Drawing Lab Paris (2021); awarded the Hors les murs creation and research program award by the French Institute; the Prix Rhône-Alpes de la Jeune Création, Rendez-vous 15, Biennale de Lyon; and the prize of the Conseil Général of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon.



Born in 1985, Bogotá, Colombia.







SOLO EXHIBITION


2022

2021

Las huellas del viento, mor charpentier, Paris

Tierradentro, curated by Anaîs Lepage, Drawing Lab Paris.

2019
Así fue, The Pill, Istambul.

2017
(Dé)placements, curated by Sandra Patron, MRAC Sérignan, Musée régional d’art contemporain, Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan.

Artissima, Galerie Sketch, Drawing section curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva, directors of Kunstalle Lissabon, Turin.

De l’autre côté, INSA Lyon.

2015
Drawing now, galerie Marine Veilleux, Le carreaux du temple, Paris.

2014
Amalgame, au GAC à Annonay, dans le cadre des Galeries Nomades en partenariat avec l’Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne, Rhone- Alpes.

Summertime, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.

2011
Welcome, l’Attrape-Couleurs, Lyon.






GROUP EXHIBITION

2022

Manifesto of Fragility : Biennale de Lyon, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Lyon.

An ocean in every drop, curated by Rahul Gudipudi and Nora Razian, Jameel Arts centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, Kestner gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany.

Power Flower, curated by Marie Maertens et Cédric Teisseire, Grande halle du 109, Nice.




2021

Ubuntu, un rêve lucide, curated by Marie- Ann Yemsi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Fuera de Lugar, curated by Bruno Leitao, Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid.


Battements d’une machine fabuleuse, curated By Asli Seven, Saint- Joseph Lisesi Kûltûrel Etkinlikleri, Istambul



2020

HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?, curated by Marie- Ann Yemsi, MACAAL, Morocco.


Your friends and neighbors, High Art, Paris.

Radical Hope,
mor charpentier, Paris.




2019
Time For Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Perez Collection, curated by José Roca, El Espacio 23, Miami.

Paroxysm of Sublime, curated by Anna Milone & Ana Iwataki, Welcome to LACE with Flax Foundation, Los Angeles.


A Causal Loop, Curated by Ami Barak, Gallery Charim, Vienna.

Les jours de la pleine lune #22, La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand.



2018
Bandes à part, nouvel accrochage des collections, curated by Sandra Patron, MRAC, Musée régional d’art contemporain, Occitanie, Pyrénées- Méditerranée, Sérignan. .

J’allai, ce soir-là, fumer une cigarette sur le sable au bord de la mer,Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou, Paris.




2017
Le 6B dessine son salon, Artiste invité du salon, commissariat: Marie Gautier et Claire Luna, 6B, Paris
HC10 / Fênetres, domaine Lezigno, Languedoc Roussillon.


FMAC à la Fiac, acquisitions 2017 du fonds municipal d’art contemporain de Paris, Foire internationale d’art contemporain FIAC, Paris.

Attaches, curated by Claire Luna, Année France- Colombie 2017, Cité des arts, Paris

Corps sans tête, un lendemain difficile, Maêlle Galerie, Paris


Rendez vous 2017, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, Chine.



2016
Le Temps de l’audace et de l’Engagement - de leur Temps (5), collections privées Françaises, IAC de Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes.
Jeune création 66 édition, Exposition internationale d’art contemporain, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin.

Women’s Independence, Paris Asian art fair.

Sculptura, biennale 3ème édition, Bourse du travail et Espace contemporain, Valence

Session #1 Instantanés, Backslash, Paris.

The making of an exhibition, Curate it yourself, Galleria Marcolini,Forli, Italy


2015
Rendez-vous 15, Jeune création internationale / Biennale de Lyon, Institut d’art contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.

Curate it yourself, Villa Belleville, Paris.


Bazar, Primo Piani, Paris. 


Empan, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris. 


2014
Conspirations? Quelle conspiration?, Kunstverein Sparkasse, Leipzig. Allemagne.
#1 Poros, Galerie Marine Veilleux, Paris.


Animal Paradise, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Istres.





2011
A skeleton in the closet 2, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, ReMap3-Galeria Utopia,  Athens.
3ème édition de Art Protects, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.

Vue sur la mer, en partenariat avec les works masters de la HEAD Genève, nouveau bâtiment de la Ciguë, Genève.

A Skeleton in the Close, à Heidelberg Kunstverein, Allemagne.

Hard Copy, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel et Raoul Zöllner, PM Gallery, Berlin.

56ème Salon de Montrouge.

Copie Right, musée des moulages à Lyon.

Jet Lag, à la galerie Espacio Alternativo ENPEG La Esmeralda, Mexico

Les Enfants du sabbat XII, au Centre d’Art Contemporain le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers.




2010
Toubabou, à la Fondation Bullukian, Lyon.




AWARDS

2019
Laureate Drawing Lab Paris.

2017
Hors les murs – programme de recherche et de création, Institut Français.

2015
Prix Rhône-Alpes de la Jeune Création, Rendez - vous 15, IAC de Villeurbanne / Biennale de Lyon.

2010
Prix de Paris et du Conseil Général à l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon.


EDUCATION

2010
DNSEP, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Lyon.

2008
- DNAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Lyon.