Rafael Canogar, a painter with the look of an architect, exhibition at the Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum
24/09/2023.
[Malaga] Spain
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA
Starting September 19, the exhibition «Rafael Canogar. Of architecture. Artist's collection (1993-2009) ». It will be open until December 10, 2023, in the Sala Noble of Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga.
The exhibition presents an exquisite selection of ten works by the great representative of Spanish informalist painting, covering works from the 1990s to the early 2000s.
In addition to the artist, Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935), Susana Martín, general director of culture of Málaga, the director of McArthurGlen, Javier Mendizábal, the company sponsoring the exhibition, and Javier Ferrer and Lourdes Moreno, manager and director of Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum, attended to the opening ceremony.
The exhibition presents an exquisite selection of ten works by the great representative of Spanish informalist painting, covering works from the 1990s to the early 2000s.
In addition to the artist, Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935), Susana Martín, general director of culture of Málaga, the director of McArthurGlen, Javier Mendizábal, the company sponsoring the exhibition, and Javier Ferrer and Lourdes Moreno, manager and director of Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum, attended to the opening ceremony.
El paredón / The wall, 1994. Construction on handmade paper, painted in oil and glued to board, 200 x 200 cm. Rafael Canogar.
Órgano / Organ, 2006. Oil and gold leaf on handmade paper and glued on board, 217 X 120 cm. Collection of the artist, Madrid.
Lintel, 2009. Construction on handmade paper, painted in oil and glued to board, 100 x 81 cm. Rafael Canogar.
El paredón / The wall, 1994. Construction on handmade paper, painted in oil and glued to board, 200 x 200 cm. Rafael Canogar.
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.
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September 19, 2023 to December 10, 2023.
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Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga. Plaza Carmen Thyssen, Calle Compañía, 29008 Málaga, Spain.
Rafael Canogar
Rafael Garcia Cano, (Toledo, 1935), studied with the painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz, between 1949 and 1954. He was a founding member of the group El Paso, and abstract influence, which was linked between 1957 and 1960.
From 1976 he returned to abstraction from a new perspective. Through his work, invents and reinvents an aesthetic language that leads to a rupture and a new conception of time and space. The matter becomes a metaphor, music, and a meeting point between the old and the modern. Canogar cares about expressing through painting, his idea of space; his works are endless areas showing even an artist who does not need aesthetic features or historical boundaries to transform.
From 1976 he returned to abstraction from a new perspective. Through his work, invents and reinvents an aesthetic language that leads to a rupture and a new conception of time and space. The matter becomes a metaphor, music, and a meeting point between the old and the modern. Canogar cares about expressing through painting, his idea of space; his works are endless areas showing even an artist who does not need aesthetic features or historical boundaries to transform.
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