About
Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz
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Born in Málaga, 1977. Manuel Fernández is a spanish artist based in Madrid.
His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.
He investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.
Fernández has several works at the Artbase of Rhizome at the New Museum NYC and has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including The Museum of Moving Image, New York, The Armory Show, New York, PHotoespaña Madrid, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO Madrid, The Photographers Gallery, London, Galerie Verney-Carron, Lyon, Paradise. A space for screen addiction, Marseille, Xpo Gallery, Paris and Super Dakota, Brussels.
Manuel has been one of the jurors of "ERROR 415" Award in New Media organized by ArtSlant in 2013 and has been awarded with the Beep / ARCO New Media Art Prize in 2014.
His work have been featured in multiple outlets, including El País, Liberation, Triangulation Blog, I like this art, Dazed Digital, FastCo Blog, Complex Blog, O Fluxo Blog, trend magazine Notodo and Minus Space Blog, among others.
Selected press and texts:
Effet de code. Libération. 2014
Fotografía 2.0. PhotoEspaña. 2014
Dialogando con la máquina. View of the Times. 2014
Postpictures. Art for your digital life. Tenmag. 2014
Decenter. An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show. Abrons Arts Center
Manuel Fernández. I like this art. Contemporary Art Blog. 2013
25 GIF Artists you should know. Complex Magazine. 2013
Looking for faces in all the wrong places. Fast Company. 2013
Broken Gradients by Manuel Fernández. Triangulation Blog. 2012
Pintando en la red. El Arte en la Edad del Silicio. El País. 2012
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