Daniel Canogar

DANIEL CANOGAR (Madrid, 1964).
"Weightles evolution". Ossuary series, 2001.
Cibachrom photography. Copy 1/3.
Presents label on the back of the Galería Huelga de Alvear and Galería Juana de Aizpuru.
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm.
The series Osarios of Daniel Canogar is formed by 10 pieces: Aphasia, Cadencia, Destrucción de la Experiencia, Desarticulaciones, Evolución Inarticulaciones, Evolución Ingrávida, Fémur, Mandíbulas, Costillas, Protección Simbólica and Wamba. All of them starring human bones found in ossuaries or archaeological sites that emerge from the archaeologist's laboratory and float weightless on a black background.
Daniel Canogar is a visual artist who works with photography, video and installation, trained in photography at New York University and at the International Center for Photography in the same city. Throughout his career as an artist, there have been many projects in which he has participated, such as his installation "Waves", a sculptural LED screen permanently installed in the atrium of the 2 Houston Center in Houston; his work "Travesías", an LED sculpture created for his exhibition at the Council of the European Union in Brussels on the occasion of the Spanish presidency of the European Union in 2010; "Storming Times Square", a video intervention on 47 of the screens in the busy Times Square; or "Vórtices", an exhibition on water and sustainability. His work can be found in museums such as the Reina Sofía and the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid, as well as in the Santa Mónica Art Center in Barcelona, the Alejandro Otero Museum in Caracas, the Bitgorms Gallery in New York and the Andy Warhol and Mattress Factory Museums in Pittsburgh. Called a "disturbing and beautiful" work, Canogar always works using photography, expanding the images and resulting in works in which bodies elongate or contract, bouncing, meeting and cutting each other, resulting in dynamic and moving works, tremendously expressive.