Bitforms is now exhibiting an artist who did some projection mapping. Funny how that works.
Begin forwarded message: > From: bitforms gallery <[email protected]> > Date: October 25, 2010 10:58:54 AM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Daniel Canogar "Trace" opens next week > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > DANIEL CANOGAR > Trace > > OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 18, 2010 > RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 6:30-8:30 PM > > Daniel Canogar. Dial M for Murder, 2010 (Detail view). VHS magnetic tape, > video projector, multimedia hard disk. 3'30" video loop > > bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Trace, the first solo exhibition in > New York of work by celebrated Spanish artist Daniel Canogar. On view will be > two large-scale installations, Spin and Dial M for Murder, also making their > United States premiere. > > Daniel Canogar has exhibited widely in Spain and throughout Europe. He is > perhaps best known for his sculptural projections that use light and fiber > optic cables to evoke modern phantasmagoria. Much of Canogar's practice is > informed by the tradition of the readymade and he frequently raids dumpsters > and sources materials from garbage heaps near his Madrid studio to create > photography, sculpture, and installations. > > Using discarded DVDs, VHS tapes, computer parts, lenses, light bulbs, > telephone wires, and modem cables, the works on view in Trace are built on > the history of the Nouveau Réalistes' practice of merging art and life. > Recalling both Jacques de la Villeglé's ripped film posters and Arman's > Poubelles series constructed of collected trash, Canogar examines the > vestiges of our obsolete and discarded technologies and reanimates them to > reveal new meaning. > > Dial M for Murder is an elaborate network of tape ripped from a VHS copy of > Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. Forming a latticework of > crisscrossed lines spreading across the gallery, a video animation is > precisely aimed at these radiating geometries and appears to constantly move > along the tape, much as the head in the VCR would have done. A living system > becomes apparent, as the animation spirits a narrative forward, evoking a > pumping heart, veins and arteries. Reviving this celluloid artifact to > dramatic effect, the animation was inspired by Saul Bass' credits for > Hitchcock's films, as well as the filmmaker's sawtoothed suspense plots. > > Exploring the short life expectancy of the technologies we cast off, Spin is > comprised of the copied contents of 100 discarded DVDs that are projected > back onto their surface, revealing the moving images trapped within the > discs. Due to the DVDs' mirrored surfaces, the projections are reflected onto > the opposite wall, creating an abstract double of the films. By layering the > different soundtracks of the DVDs, an acoustic cacophony rises and subsides > throughout the video loop. Turning Benjamin's notion of the work of art in > the age of mechanic reproduction on its head, these distinctly utopian > cosmologies brim with kinetic energy. > > A concurrent exhibition in New York City held at the American Museum of > Natural History will feature a new installation, monumental in scale, by > Canogar that visually simulates the human brain's synaptic impulses. > > > Daniel Canogar. Dial M for Murder, 2010. VHS magnetic tape, video projector, > multimedia hard disk. 3'30" video loop > > Concurrent and upcoming exhibitions with Daniel Canogar > Sep 16 - Oct 30, Palma de Mallorca: Enredos at Espai Quatre, Casal Solleric > Oct 24 - Nov 28, Ludwigsberg: Daniel Canogar: Recent Installations, > Kunstverein Ludwigsberg > Oct 28 - Dec 18, New York City: Trace, bitforms gallery > Nov 20 - Aug 14, 2011, New York City: Brain: The Inside Story, American > Museum of Natural History > Dec 2 - Dec 5, Miami: Pulse Miami > Jan 20 - Jan 30, Park City, UT: New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival > Feb 9 - Apr 30, 2011, Madrid: Surface Tension, Fundación Canal > > bitforms gallery nyc > 529 West 20th St, between 10th and 11th Aves > 2nd Floor Main Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM > 6th Floor Project Room Hours: Wed-Sat, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM > > Directions to bitforms gallery > Nearest subway is the C/E to 23rd St in Chelsea. Gallery is located between > 10th and 11th Ave. > > For images and more information please call 212.366.6939 or visit > www.bitforms.com > > bitforms gallery is devoted to emerging and established artists who embrace > new media and contemporary art practices. > > > > Forward email > > This email was sent to [email protected] by [email protected]. > Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | > Privacy Policy. > Email Marketing by > > bitforms gallery | 529 W. 20th St. | New York | NY | 10011 >
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