20170322_MUN_InaugurationSikkaIngentium

"Thank you for letting me make a dream come true, Sikka Ingentium. Today is a very exciting day for me, the arrival at a goal after three years of intense work , together with my technical director , the engineer Diego Mellado, and the musical director , the artist and composer Alexander MacSween". Thus began the press conference Daniel Canogar, who stressed that this work is a tribute to an audiovisual medium now in extinction (the DVD), to an era that has passed and to the taste we all have for cinema. "Because he who does not remember his past, has lost his identity and does not know where he comes from or where he is going," he said in his constant eagerness in his professional career to perpetuate the report.

The more than 2,400 DVDs that make up the sculpture are placed on the wall of the main conference room of the University of Navarra Museum. It is an installation in the shape of a huge cloud, with a base of more than 18 meters and 3 meters high. "The form that the set acquires evokes the accumulation of information that is installed in the network, on the Internet, in social networks" and thus criticizes the excess of images that we currently generate, the way we use to reproduce them or the media where we store them, which quickly become obsolete, so that "they are images that do not last, only circulate," he said paraphrasing Joan Fontcuberta, with whom he said he shares this vision.

In Sikka Ingentium, Canogar becomes "archaeologist and filmmaker", as he has created his own script, with a non-linear narrative, which gives as result a 30-minute film made with fragments of the films recorded in those records of the past. "There is no repeated film; some are Hollywood productions, but Nigerian, Chinese, European, Spanish cinema is also present... I choose fragments to create series: the faces that personalize this film industry, car explosions as recurring scenes, horses for their presence on the big screen from westerns to the present day, among others."

The audiovisual production is composed of 7,500 layers, which are projected on five projectors on the surface of this large sculpture of 18 meters. The sound composition works on 14 sound tracks. And as the DVDs' obverses act as a mirror, the piece has a second version, if one contemplates the reflection that the discs generate on the wall in front of it. "I also like this other image of the sculpture because for me it represents, in an abstract way, our accumulation of memories, it turns the work into a sensorial experience and a reflection on the human being's taste for that which produces reflections, shines and desires, from the primitive age and the fire of the caves to the sparkles of Hollywood".

The album covers are also part of the exhibition. They can be seen in the exhibition corridor that precedes the access to the conference room, so that visitors can see which films have been used to compose the work, "chosen not for what they contain, but because they were being considered almost as trash, a DVD to be discarded. I like to recover something about to become extinct and give it a new life, a contemporary use".

For his part, the Museum's general director , Jaime García del Barrio, thanked the important partnership of the Aquae Foundation, which has made this work possible, and announced that there will be a second work of Canogar for the Museum, "from now on, Daniel begins to work for the program of artistic creation of the Museum, Building Bridges. When he finishes his study and new production, we will be able to present another exhibition of the artist and we will edit a publication with the results of this and his future work".