Daniel Canogar – Reverberations
Galerie Kornfeld is pleased to present the solo exhibition Reverberations by Spanish-American artist Daniel Canogar.
Data drives the world we live in today, from our homes to our offices, slowly creeping into every aspect of our sense of self and daily life. It is therefore no surprise that Canogar’s works raise a crucial question of our time: is this data-driven society for the better or for the worse? Bringing together a variety of recent projects, this exhibition explores the many sides of this virtual coin.
As viewers enter the moving colour fields of Canogar’s sculptures and screens, they momentarily lose sight of the physical world around them. Is it the world we can touch and feel, or the other world that exists in a complex virtual space—one that has profoundly infiltrated our society?
At the centre of Canogar’s practice lies this tactile relationship between the “real” and the “virtual.” His work captures how we interact with technology and, conversely, how technology reshapes our perception of the world, our modes of communication, and the social fabric of connection.
Canogar’s background in photography has informed his highly visual artworks, through which he creates seemingly inescapable worlds of his own making—worlds driven by and sourced from data drawn from the “real” world. For the artist, the digital sphere is not a static realm to be explored, but an ever-changing field that ranges from the physicality of VHS tapes, DVDs, smartphones, and hard drives to the more fluid and immaterial landscape of the electronic realm.
The works in Reverberations address themes such as the lifespan of consumer electronics, the evolution of digital information systems, the use of real-time data from various natural phenomena, and data streams as representations of collective consciousness. They question how data is consumed, processed, and circulated online.
Daniel Canogar (born 1964 in Madrid) received an MA from New York University’s International Center of Photography in 1990. He subsequently moved toward projected images and installation art. His permanent LED-based installations include Aqueous at the Sobrato Foundation (Mountain View, CA, 2019), Pulse at the Zachry Engineering Education Complex, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, 2018), Tendril at Tampa International Airport (Tampa, FL, 2017), and Cannula, Xylem, and Gust II at BBVA Bank Headquarters (Madrid, 2018). He has held solo exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History, the Sundance Film Festival, Wilde Gallery, Max Estrella Gallery, and Galerie Anita Beckers.
The exhibition was organised in cooperation with Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt.
