RAFAEL CANOGAR GÓMEZ (Toledo, 1935). Lot n° 40

RAFAEL CANOGAR GÓMEZ (Toledo, 1935). "Grada".2000. Construction in aluminum and oil on board. Signed and dated on the lower left corner: "00 / Canogar". Work catalogued in the web page of the artist Nº cat. 2000-042: EXHIBITIONS - 2001. Canogar. Fifty years of painting. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 21 March-28 May. - 2001-02. Canogar. Recent work. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Manuel Ojeda Gallery, December 21, 2001-January 30, 2002. - 2002. Canogar. Alicante, Gallery Italy, from May 24 Measurements: 77 x 96 cm; 81 x 100,5 cm (frame). Co-founder of the group "El Paso" in 1957, during the fifties he developed a fully informalist work, that derives during the sixties in a complex figuration more and more narrative. In the sixties he achieved international recognition as a guest professor at Milles College in California to teach the art course 1965-66, and as a guest artist at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1969. Also, between 1972 and 1974 he was invited by the D.A.A.D. of Berlin as resident artist. During his maturity stage, from 1975, Canogar invents a new iconography, his own and personal, which he expresses through the mask, the head, the face, as a representation of the man who loses his individuality and becomes a plastic sign. His work will also be recognized in Spain, and during the eighties he will be a member of the Advisory Council of the General Directorate of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture, of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Heritage. Throughout his career, Canogar has held countless solo and group exhibitions. Among the personal exhibitions, several have been retrospectives, among others: Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo and Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Villa de Paris, Sonia Heine Foundation in Oslo, Konsthalle de Lund in Sweden, Paris Art Center, Bochum Art Museum in Germany, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte de Parma, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Fundación Casa del Cordón de Burgos, Museo de Santa Cruz de Toledo, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, etc.