20170310_MUN_CanogarInauguraIn March
Sikka Ingentium is the new work by Daniel Canogar, a large sculpture with debris from contemporary culture.
Produced by the Museo Universidad de Navarra, the work consists of 2,500 DVD's of films installed in a unique piece of enormous dimensions, which will be on display at the Museum's main conference room from March 22nd.
From March 22nd, visitors will be able to contemplate Sikka Ingentium, the latest work by Daniel Canogar produced by the Museum.
2,500 DVDs containing films presented in Hollywood and other film festivals around the world will form a single piece, in the shape of a cloud, whose dimensions will reach 2,700 cm. x 1,800 cm. On the shiny surface generated by the installation, the content of the discs themselves will be projected, which thus become a screen that receives the information they store. Upon receiving the images, a area of colors and shapes in movement is created, which expand through the conference room in the form of reflections. A whole sensory experience that is completed with a sound composition, made by Alexander MacSween in partnership with the artist, based on fragments of the band of the films themselves.
Sikka Ingentium does not intend to compose a linear story or a comprehensive narrative, but is presented as a metaphor of the collective report of the contemporary public, a sum of scenes that are associated with each other by different criteria, unknown, perhaps the result of the impact that each one generated the images or themes addressed. The work represents the baggage that remains in the mind of the spectator. Interested in this archeology of contemporary culture, where different supports from file dominate at a given moment, but soon become technologically obsolete, Canogar makes sculptures of great plastic force with these objects (VHS, CDs, or DVDs, as in this case). A new way of giving life to the waste of contemporary culture, also addressing in a certain way the topic of recycling and ecology. Sikka Ingentium is a reflection on the obsolescence of the media and the obsolescence of the human being, who has been formed in contact with these technologies.
Formally, it is presented as an artificial and decorative surface: discs that look like sequins, and refer to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, a world of appearances, glitter and reflections. The cloud-like shape of the installation evokes the virtual world created by the Internet, which is replacing precisely the storage media with which the sculpture is created. Canogar thus converts objects designed to contain audiovisual information into a different spectacle, a monument to accumulated information.
The artist uses the Museum's collection of historical photography to delve into the various supports of photography, from its invention to the present day, its coexistence with film and other media, its uses as file, the limitations with which the documents of the past reach us and how these objects speak of ourselves and the relationship we establish with the technologies that surround us.
While Canogar finalizes the assembly of this piece with financial aid of audiovisual communication students in the main conference room of the building designed by Rafael Moneo (the conference room has 500m2 of surface and a variable height of 9 to 14 meters), has already begun his second work for the University Museum of Navarra, within the program of artistic creation called "Tender Bridges".Tender Puentes". This period of study will culminate with a new production, which will be shown in the future in his second exhibition in the Museum and in a publication.