Pasaje (Passage)
- Date
1995
- Edition number
Unique work
- Technique
- Photolithography and assemblage
- Materia
Plywood and halogen light
- Dimensions
- Overall: 210 x 150 x 50 cm / Figure: 199 x 34 cm / Back: 203 x 120,5 x 2 cm / Base: 110 x 72 x 53 cm
- Description
An installation with a wooden structure and photolith projection via halogen light
- Year of entry
- 1997
- Registration number
- AD00249
Daniel Canogar is a key figure in multimedia art in Spain. He studied Image Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid (1987) and photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography (1990). His work focuses on the themes of dematerialisation and the virtual human body, as well as the possibilities for interaction in real-time art.
He participated in the 1994 Barcelona exhibition Anys 90. Distància zero (The 90s: Zero Distance) with a similar piece to this one, based on the photographic projection of the other half of the same male nude running. The exhibition brought together a group of artists who, as curator José Luis Brea put it, were engaged in ‘the crisis of the despotic order of representation’.
The spectral phantasmagoria of Pasaje culminates one of the artist’s previous reflections: ‘Electricity, our contemporary society’s new plasma, reduces the body to a mere projection of itself [...] the subject’s precarious stability in a reality that constantly opens out our organism’.
Carmen Fernández Aparicio