bitforms gallery

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.

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