EXHIBITION:
Liquid Memories
2019-09-12 - 2020-01-06 Curator: Lola Durán
Daniel Canogar's work reflects on memory and the loss of memory. Through his projects he seeks to prevent the forgetting and disappearance of memories as a result of information overload. In addressing the theme, he takes several different approaches: from a remembrance of the former life of certain disused technological items and materials to an interest in digitally compiling and transforming the changes that affect today's developed societies. In this exhibition, entitled Memorias líquidas [Liquid Memories], he reflects on processes for not losing memory, on the awareness of loss. An important part of the discourse centres on the constant and unassumable data flow that bombards us in our everyday lives. Using a technological process, Canogar collates and projects the data in the form of abstract generative animations, which are very revealing in plastic terms and are characterised by the poetic value they convey.
Ooze, 2017 / © Daniel Canogar, VEGAP, Donostia / San Sebastián, 2019
THE ARTIST: DANIEL CANOGAR (Madrid, 1964)
Canogar's life and artistic career have been divided between Spain and the US. In 1990, he was awarded a master's degree in photography from the New York University and the International Center of Photography. Although his first medium was photography, he soon began to take took an interest in video, sculpture and art installation.
His most recent exhibition projects include the solo shows Echo, at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, 2019); Melting the Solids at the Art Bärtschi & Cie gallery (Geneva, 2018); Fluctuations at the Salón Alcalá 31, (Madrid, 2017); Sikka Ingentium, at the Museum of the University of Navarre, (Pamplona, 2017); Quadratura, at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Lima, (Lima, 2014); Vortices, created for the Fundación Canal de Isabel II (Madrid, 2011) and the installation Synaptic Passage for the exhibition Brain. The Inside Story at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Canogar has created several monuments in public spaces, including Aqueous at the Sobrato Organization (Mountain View, 2019), Press at the Texas A&M University (College Station, 2018), Tendril, at Tampa International Airport (Tampa, 2018), and Xilem and Taste II at the central headquarters of the BBVA bank (Madrid, 2018); Storming Times Square (New York, 2014); and Waves, in the atrium of the JP Morgan Houston (Houston, 2012). Other installations include Constelaciones, the largest photo mosaic in Europe, created for two pedestrian bridges in the Rio Manzanares Park, (Madrid, 2010); and Travesías, a large-size LED screen created in 2010 for the atrium of the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in Brussels to mark the Spanish presidency of the European Union.
Other major works include Nodi, two photo murals at the Arensa train station in Naples; and Clandestinos, a video projection on iconic monuments, shown on the Arcos da Lapa aqueduct in Río de Janeiro, the Alcalá Gate in Madrid and the church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. Canogar has published two books, Ciudades Efímeras: Exposiciones Universales, Espectáculo y Tecnología [Ephemeral Cities: Universal Exhibitions, Spectacle and Technology] (published by Julio Ollero, Madrid, 1992) and Ingrávidos [Weightless] (Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2003). He has also written a number of essays on the architecture of image, contemporary photography and the art of the new media
ACTIVITIES
Free guided visits At 6:30 in Basque and at 7:30 in Spanish.
Family Workshops. Numbers speak! Family Workshops for accompanied participants aged 5-11
Every Saturday from 17:00 to 17:30 hours. Price: €3 The aim of this workshop is to introduce children to the world of data and how they are shown graphically, and to encourage them to think about the data themselves.
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Amalgama, 2019 / © Daniel Canogar, VEGAP, Donostia / San Sebastián, 2019
Programmes for groups:
Guided visits 60 min Price: €60
Guided visit + workshops 90 min Price: €80
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RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Daniel Canogar by… Oumuamua (Ignacio Bilbao) 4 October, 8 pm Set of moving sounds, joined by weak cohesive forces, created by Oumuamua. Ignacio Bilbao (Grande Days). Free entry on a first-come first-served basis. Limited spaces.
Real time. History of Electronic Art, by Jaime de los Ríos 28 November, 7 pm Lecture by Jaime de los Ríos, electronic artist and founder of the open laboratory of Art and Science, ARTEK[Lab]. Free entry on a first-come first-served basis. Limited spaces.
Combined visit whit Tabakalera bay Jaime de los Ríos aniel Canogar by… Jaime de los Ríos 12 December, 6 pm Data walk—guided tour by Jaime de los Ríos of the exhibitions Daniel Canogar. Liquid Memories (Kubo-kutxa room) and Filipa Cesar. Algorithms of Cotton (Tabakalera). Free. Registrations and further information at the Gallery itself, on 943251939 or via email at
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Guided tour + film 23 December, 6 pm Guided tour of the exhibition by film critic Iñaki Ortiz. - Completed! Free.
23 December, 7:30 pm Screening of the film Creative Control (2015) at the Trueba cinema, organised by Kresala Zinekluba in partnership with the Salon Kubo-Kutxa. Tickets on sale from the cinema ticket offic |
