Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar - Wayward Stills, 220709180310

Technique: Pigmented print on cotton paper. Captures of the generative work Wayward processing journalistic images of recent events.

Artist Biography: Daniel Canogar is a Spanish contemporary artist born in Madrid in 1964. He is known for his work at the intersection of art, technology and science, exploring the relationship between humans and technology through multimedia installations.Canogar graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1985, and in 1989 moved to New York to continue his studies at Pratt Institute, where he specialized in photography and video. In the 1990s he began working on multimedia installations, using video projections and screens to create works that engaged the viewer in an interactive dialogue.Throughout his career, Canogar has exhibited his work in galleries and museums around the world, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, and the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art in the United States. He has also worked on several public projects, such as the permanent installation "Wave" at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina.One of Canogar's best-known works is "Assault," a 2005 installation consisting of a giant LED screen suspended in the air, showing a series of moving images taken from scenes in action films. The work was exhibited in the group exhibition "Infinite Painting" at the Sofia Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012.In addition to his work in the visual arts, Canogar has also been a professor at the European University of Madrid and has collaborated with several technology companies on research and development projects. In 2014, he was awarded Spain's National Electronic Art Award for his contribution to the discipline of digital art.

 

With frame: 6.000 EUR Without frame: 5.000 EUR Wayward is inspired by post-war artists who began to manipulate photographs taken from the press, among them, Andy Warhol, Martha Rosler, Wolf Vostell or Robert Rauschenberg. The social protests of the 1960s motivated many artists of this era to intervene press photos of wars, political demonstrations and various social upheavals. They mastered silkscreen, photomontage, collage and other photographic appropriation techniques. Fifty years later, Wayward returns to process photo-journalistic images, but this time filtered by the digital tool. The news images of the day are digitally manipulated with visual effects that evoke analog and photochemical techniques of the past. As a generative work, it stands out for its processual character, which is never finished due to the incessant flow of new news.