Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Systemic Grid 17 (Window 2), 2015

This work from Steegmann Mangrane's series of Systemic Grids consists of a glass panel constructed of sections of clear and of slightly distorted glass that are affixed to an underlying sheet of security glass to create a geometric pattern.

As distorting looking-glass, the work creates a formal filter, blurring sections of the environment and superimposing a fragmenting grid. At the same time, the uneven sections of glass draw attention to the material’s properties: it has changing consistency and thickness. The geometric pattern used as grid (in which some sections are clear, others filled with slightly distorting glass) is created using a self-imposed rule—by pivoting, turning, and mirroring a simple geometric shape.

The pane of glass is secured by a concrete base, recalling the iconic museum architecture designed by the modernist Lina Bo Bardi for the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo in 1957.