DANIEL MANGIN
Open your Mind
Daniel Mangin invites visitors to move through shifting states of light and emotion. One space feels bright and uplifting, while the darker room evokes the intensity of a storm—proof of how powerfully light can shape our inner landscape.
Mangin’s artistic lineage draws on several great movements: the Impressionists sought the light of the sun; the Surrealists explored the landscapes of the mind; Cubism pursued an ever-curious multiplicity of viewpoints. Later, much of modern art abandoned philosophical purpose altogether. Today, Mangin finds stronger kinship with artists such as Nicolas de Staël, for the force of his colors, and Mark Rothko, for the profound psychological depth of his canvases.
Walking through Open Your Mind, one encounters Mangin’s own vision: a “golden light of humanity’s mind,” a cultivated inner radiance that appears when people strive to elevate themselves. His abstract language strips away the anecdotal to reach the universal. The calm he feels in museums—in what he calls a warm, peaceful immersion—is what he aims to offer here: a moment of clarity, serenity, and reflection.
Mangin’s work is a quiet proposal for what humanity could become if it chose the right direction. Through color, light, and abstraction, he seeks not to overwhelm but to raise, soothe, and inspire. The result is a journey toward a more thoughtful and luminous state of being.
Discover more about the artist featured here in the bio section: Daniel Mangin↗.
Mangin’s artistic lineage draws on several great movements: the Impressionists sought the light of the sun; the Surrealists explored the landscapes of the mind; Cubism pursued an ever-curious multiplicity of viewpoints. Later, much of modern art abandoned philosophical purpose altogether. Today, Mangin finds stronger kinship with artists such as Nicolas de Staël, for the force of his colors, and Mark Rothko, for the profound psychological depth of his canvases.
Walking through Open Your Mind, one encounters Mangin’s own vision: a “golden light of humanity’s mind,” a cultivated inner radiance that appears when people strive to elevate themselves. His abstract language strips away the anecdotal to reach the universal. The calm he feels in museums—in what he calls a warm, peaceful immersion—is what he aims to offer here: a moment of clarity, serenity, and reflection.
Mangin’s work is a quiet proposal for what humanity could become if it chose the right direction. Through color, light, and abstraction, he seeks not to overwhelm but to raise, soothe, and inspire. The result is a journey toward a more thoughtful and luminous state of being.
Discover more about the artist featured here in the bio section: Daniel Mangin↗.
Apples of Russia
Crosses
Great Yellow Monochrome
Immediate Sensations
Is there a Border? Someone to Hate?
Mediterranean Sea
Oysters
Possibility of an Encounter
Rome and Alba
Sunrise on Ganymede
Ten little Normalians
The Building
The Genome
The Heart Soars
The Horizon of Possibilities
The Power of unrecognized Needs
The Promise of a good Harvest
The Shells
Tribute to Yves Saint-Laurent
