Daniel Boccato
Daniel Boccato collects the outlines of objects, freeing them from any narrative, placing them outside a preestablished context.
He reuses the forms found to create monochromatic sculptures, In fiberglass and epoxy, adaptable industrial materials, dried until they reach a strong finish which confers a density on these hollow objects.
Each of these sculptures recalls vaguely something of a déjà vu. The protruding elements, the reliefs wrinkles on the plastic surfaces inspire us to question ourselves indexing here and there grimaces or the human appearance of a grin, but reminds to us also that they are above all forms. Nevertheless, there is an imaginary fragility, a remains of the delicate cardboard and the molds to strip which once contained them.
The cover placed during the process of casting prints wrinkles and folds on the surface, which give an aspect deceitfully thicker in the hard and inflexible shell. And if the works on the brilliant wall remind us of the lineage of a painting-cum-sculpture, there is no painted track: the resin adheres to the paint which was applied to the mold, by by taking on the work in color in an immediate and irreversible way.
Sculptures show in a purely abstracted way, revealing an imprint, the extraction of a reality resisting the representation.
Born 1991 in Campinas, Brasil
Lives and works in New York
2013 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
ghost of, magenta plains, New York
ZONE, galerie krabath, Vienna
2022
69 parrotpaintings, berthold pott, Cologne
2021
The man the owl the lion the king, Formatocomodo, Madrid
"The mute feeling isn't bad", Bunker East, New York
2020
that that, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City
a winter landscape, The Journal Gallery, New York
when is a day not long enough, Sunday-s Gallery, Copenhagen
2019
stiff neck garden, Berthold Pott, Koln
stone soap glory, Mister Fahrenheit, New York
2018
fly like an eagle, Ribott Gallery, Milano
flat, Duo show with Al Freeman, Carl Kostyal, London
gatekeepers, Tabacalara, Madrid
2017
nut, nuts, nut job, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels
2016
creepers, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
rot pear rot, Formato Comodo, Madrid
2015
an eye for an eye, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw
2014
sorcerer's potter's pink, 39 Great Jones, New York
to call a tree a tree, Cooper Union, New York
2013
tombstones for a bird, Cooper Union, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Beyond the Frame, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels
2021
Ehrenfeld, Berthold Pott, Cologne
2020
All of a sudden, Galeria Mascota, Aspen
Documento, Embajada, San Juan
Friends and friends of friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz
2019
Bad actors, Karst, Plymouth
Cannibal valley (duo with Loup Sarion), M+B, Los Angeles
Summer group show, Sunday-s gallery, Copenhagen
2018
FLAT (duo with Al Freeman), Carl Kostyal, London
Coccaro on paper, Masseria Torre Coccaro & Carl Kostyal, Puglia
Present, Musée & Jardins Van Buuren, Brussels
Into the woods, he.ro, Amsterdam
2017
How it's made, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
00:00 - 11:11 - 22:22, 401 Broadway, New York
Pretty. Vacant., Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
Drawing island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn
Small Enough To Keep Me Happy – Big Enough To Keep Me Occupied, V1 Gallery / Eighteen, Copenhagen
Summer Sun, The Journal, New York
2016
Le Geant de la Digue, Asphalte festival, Charleroi, Belgium (with Loup Sarion)
...Suggest the Shape of the Wind, NAM Project, Milan
White Columns Bene t Auction, New York
Public Art Fund Spring Bene t Auction, New York mythology, Arsenal, Toronto
2015
scent, Dickinson Roundell, New York mythology, Galerie Division, Montreal
2012
Amsterdam New York Pop Up Show, Peter Klashorst, Amsterdam
2011
Inventions of the Twenty First Century, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville
2010
Everyone is welcome, NYCAMS, New York