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EL PAÍS hosts guest artist Daniel Canogar at its ARCO stand

20-02-2017

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) will be the guest artist at the EL PAÍS stand at the ARCO Contemporary Art Fair 2017, which opens in Madrid on February 22. The work is titled Ripple and uses projection to convey the current state of news and technology. The piece is constantly mutating and no moment is ever repeated. 

The public will be able to view an abstract animation created using the most-viewed videos ever  from the digital edition of EL PAÍS. These images will fall intermittently from the top of the screen, leaving behind a wavy ripple in their wake. The work is constantly being generated afresh since it uses computers to randomly combine the order and the location in which the videos on the projection appear.

The projections resemble a loom, in which news is used as threads to weave visual patterns. Ripple uses abstraction to portray the social fabric created by the new electronic information society. 

Daniel Canogar has shown several works in public spaces, among them Waves, an LEDS sculptural screen installed permanently in the atrium of the 2 Houston Center in Houston; Travesías, a sculpture made for the atrium of the Council of the European Union in Brussels on the occasion of the Spanish presidency in 2010 and Constelaciones, the largest photographic mosaic in Europe, created for two pedestrian bridges crossing the Manzanares River in Madrid. 

His works have been exhibited at the Reina Sofía Contemporary Art Museum in Madrid, the Bitforms Gallery in New York, the Filomena Soares Gallery in Lisbon, the Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, the Santa Monica Art Center in Barcelona, ​​the Kunstsammlung Museum Nordrhein Westfalen in Dusseldorf, the Alejandro Otero Museum in Caracas and the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, among many others.

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