CULVER CITY, CALIF.- Christopher Grimes Projects announced our representation of Daniel Canogar. Exploring the central theme of memory, and its loss, Daniel Canogar’s work engages with light, color, movement, materiality, and the dynamics of the data sphere. Activated by online data, the fluid and ever-changing imagery transmitted through Canogar’s sculptures react in real-time to various socio-political and environmental phenomena occurring around the globe, such as atmospheric conditions, pollution, news cycles, trending google searches, and stock market fluctuations. These generative artworks are driven by algorithms coded in the artist's studio.
The meditative and often hypnotic aspect of these compositions reveals the elegance of particular internal orders in an otherwise chaotic world, creating a seductive sensory experience. Canogar’s sculptures invite viewers to seek different perspectives in discovering the artwork, incorporating their movements in and around the work as a crucial participatory component of their experience.
Daniel Canogar was born in 1964 in Madrid. His work has been exhibited internationally in major museums including the Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
“The material stability of the screen itself has also become a source of artistic exploration. Plugged into the internet, the information coursing through my artworks seems to erode their physicality. Screens become skin-like membranes that stretch, twist and fold. Their curving shapes are better streamlined for the constant flow of information they process. After years of research, I have developed a flexible LED tile that allows me to create screens with complex curving shapes. Thus, I can make screens that respond to the specific features of the architecture that contains them.” -Daniel Canoga
He has created permanent public art installations with LED screens, including Brushstrokes, a permanent LED screen artwork for the new DeKa Bank headquarters’ lobby (Frankfurt, 2022); Oculus, a generative animation featured on Novartis Pavillon zero-energy media façade (Basel, Switzerland, 2022); Dynamo, a site-specific audiovisual project designed for the Spanish Pavilion in Dubai Expo 2020 (Dubai, 2021); Currents a suspended artwork in the atrium of the renovated Evangelische Bank (Kassel, 2020); 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 Oculus a generative animation features on Novartis Pavillon zero-media façade (Basel, Switzerland, 2022); Brushstrokes a screen installation for DeKa Bank’s lobby (Frankfurt, Germany, 2022);Bifurcation, a multi-laser projection at Noor Riyadh Light & Art Festival (Riyadh, 2021); Amalgama Phillips (Washington D.C., 2021) and Amalgama El Prado (Madrid,2019), generative video-projections projected on the Phillips Collection and the Museo Nacional del Prado façades’ and created with the painting collections of both institutions; Fulgurations, a project in collaboration with the Spanish National Cancer Research Center - CNIO (Madrid, 2021); Bifurcation, a multi-laser projection for the Noor Riyadh Light & Art Festival (Riyadh, 2021); Constellations, the largest photo-mosaic in Europe created for two pedestrian bridges over the Manzanares River, in Madrid Río Park (Madrid, 2010) and Asalto, a series of video-projections presented on various emblematic monuments, including the Arcos de Lapa (Rio de Janeiro, 2009), the Puerta de Alcalá (Madrid, 2009) and the church of San Pietro in Montorio (Rome, 2009). Also part of the series is Storming Times Square, screened on 47 of the LED billboards in Times Square (New York, NY, 2014).
