After a long career of seventy years active with numerous awards such as the National Prize for Fine Arts, Rafael Canogar stands out within Spanish abstraction, for the search for an architectural painting.
The ten works on display, some of them large format, that can be seen at the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga surprise the viewer due to their three-dimensionality and textures, suggesting forms of architectural elements that even have titles related to a discipline that fascinate the painter.
This exhibition presents works of very different abstraction, such as the one produced in his beginnings, where he was a member of the El Paso group. Here he masters a painting based on architecture and structure, through the superimposition of materials. In this way, the painting escapes its two-dimensional nature.
Órgano / Organ, 2006. Oil and gold leaf on handmade paper and glued on board, 217 X 120 cm. Collection of the artist, Madrid.
"Rafael Canogar is one of the most original and interesting creators of Spanish abstraction, and it is an honor to host his work in the Museum."
Lourdes Moreno, artistic director of the Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum.
«He continues to demand a rereading of the Spanish avant-garde, which in regard to abstraction has already been reflected in exhibitions by other members of El Paso, such as Luis Feito and Juana Francés, also in the Sala Noble, a space that we now dedicate to Rafael Canogar.
Moreno added, referring to the museum.
The concise and simple shapes, its refined minimalism, the flat colors, and a certain taste for geometry and textures are other values of the works of Rafael Canogar exhibited in the museum. The exhibition also has the collaboration of Javier Pérez Segura, a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
