In light of the closure of the gallery in response to COVID-19, the opening of Daniel Canogar’s exhibition, Billow, has been postponed. We want to take this opportunity to share previous works by the artist that have made a meaningful contribution to the landscape of new media art. Throughout his oeuvre, Canogar has sourced a wide variety of materials ranging from VHS tape, discarded cell phones, and flexible LED tiles to immaterial resources such as telephone signals, art history, and trending Google searches. The artist’s practice is intrinsically linked to the world of data, and how this invisible force negotiates its relationship with the physical world. Within these selected works, Canogar seeks to materialize the world of data and its implications through consumer electronics, public intervention, digital sculpture, and generative video. As a precursor to his upcoming show at the gallery please join us in revisiting this seminal group of works by Daniel Canogar.
Daniel Canogar
A Look Back: A Survey of Previous Works
March 26 – April 21, 2020
In light of the closure of the gallery in response to COVID-19, the opening of Daniel Canogar’s exhibition, Billow, has been postponed. We want to take this opportunity to share previous works by the artist that have made a meaningful contribution to the landscape of new media art. Throughout his oeuvre, Canogar has sourced a wide variety of materials ranging from VHS tape, discarded cell phones, and flexible LED tiles to immaterial resources such as telephone signals, art history, and trending Google searches. The artist’s practice is intrinsically linked to the world of data, and how this invisible force negotiates its relationship with the physical world. Within these selected works, Canogar seeks to materialize the world of data and its implications through consumer electronics, public intervention, digital sculpture, and generative video. As a precursor to his upcoming show at the gallery please join us in revisiting this seminal group of works by Daniel Canogar.
b. 1964 Madrid, Spain
Lives and works in Madrid and Los Angeles
Born in Madrid to a Spanish father and an American mother, Daniel Canogar´s life and career have bridged between Spain and the U.S. Photography was his earliest medium of choice, receiving an M.A. from NYU at the International Center of /photography in 1990, but he soon became interested in the possibilities of the projected image and installation art.
The artist has created permanent public art installations with LED screens, including Aqueous at The Sobrato Organization (Mountain View, CA, 2019); Pulse, at Zachry Engineering Education Complex in Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, 2018); Tendril for Tampa International Airport (Tampa, FL, 2017) and Cannula, Xylem and Gust II at BBVA Bank Headquarters (Madrid, 2018). He has also created public monumental artworks in different mediums such as Amalgama El Prado, a generative video-projection projected on the Museo Nacional del Prado façade and created with the Museum’s painting collection (Madrid, 2019.
Solo shows include Liquid Memories at sala Kubo-Kutxa (San Sebastian, 2019); Surge a temporary installation for the Grand Lobby Wall at Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA, 2019); Echo at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA, 2019); Melting the Solids at Wilde Gallery (Geneva, 2018); Fluctuations at Sala Alcalá 31 (Madrid, 2017); Echo at bitforms gallery (New York, NY, 2017) and Max Estrella Gallery (Madrid, 2017); Sikka Ingentium at Museum Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain, 2017); Quadratura at Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Lima, 2014); Vórtices at the Fundación Canal Isabel II (Madrid, 2011); Synaptic Passage, an installation commissioned for the exhibition Brain: The Inside Story at the American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY, 2010) and two installations at the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT, 2011).
Canogar has exhibited in Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfallen, Düsseldorf; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul; American Museum of Natural History, New York; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh; Palacio Velázquez, Madrid; Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid; bitforms gallery, New York; Art Bärtschi & Cie Gallery, Geneva; Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence; the Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas and the Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona.
Lumiere 2023: Stunning images as festival returns to DurhamLumiere features 40 installations, with Bishop Auckland lit up for the first time. Spanish artist Daniel Canogar created a projection for The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland.
Daniel Canogar, Loom: Streaming September 10–October 25, 2020bitforms gallery is proud to present a first of its kind, cloud-based, 24/7 stream of generative software-based art, presented in collaboration with Small Data Industries.
Daniel Canogar’s Data Abstractions, Art in AmericaAfter three months with the internet as my primary portal to the outside world, I was intrigued by the premise of Daniel Canogar’s latest work: “to expose the hidden threads of data networks.” Inside bitforms gallery, six large, wavelike metal structures covered with modular flexible LED screens hang on the walls or sit on the floor, all part of the artist’s “Billow” series (2020).
Daniel Canogar, “Billow”, Artforum Critic’s PickDaniel Canogar’s sinuous, ripple-like sculptures emanate colorful LED light in “Billow,” his solo exhibition here. It’s no accident that his bending architectural forms mimic hills, valleys, and mountains: Their slumbering shapes make the works’ cascading waves all the more hypnotic.
Virtual Opening of Billow by Daniel Canogarbitforms gallery is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition with Daniel Canogar. The data-sphere is a driving force of society and the economy, despite its invisible nature. This lack of visibility can make it difficult to comprehend how information affects daily life. Billow attempts to expose the hidden threads of data networks.
