Mills College Art Lecture Series: Daniel Canogar

Daniel Canogar: “Into the Light: Recent installations by Daniel Canogar”
November 2, 2016
7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall

Memory, and its loss, are a central theme in Canogar’s work. Unless we remember, we are condemned to an amnesiac present, textureless and flat, lacking the perspective of time. What we throw away holds an accurate portrait of who we were. VHS tapes, 35 mm film, hard discs, CDs, to name just a few obsolete mediums that Canogar has used in his art, are all depositories of our memories. When tossing them out, we are also discarding an important part of ourselves. By projecting video animations onto old media, Canogar attempts to reignite life back into the objects so as to reveal the shared memory they hold within.

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) received an M.A. from NYU and the International Center for Photography in 1990. His work as a visual artist focuses on public art, new media, installation and photography. Canogar has created numerous public art pieces, in cities throughout the world including Madrid, Houston, Brussels, New York City, and Rome.  He has had solo exhibitions at bitforms, in New York, Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima. Sponsored by the Corenah Wright Speaker Series.