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Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935). Sin título (1973).
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Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935). Sin título (1973).
by Rafael Canogar, 2013
Rafael Canogar (b 1935) [Spain] - ‘Cánon’, 2002. Etching with collage (100 x 70 cm).
Rafael CANOGAR (*1935 ) - Tête. 2005
Rafael Canogar-Seducción
Rafael Canogar - Cabeza nº 1-90. 1990
Owning the vocabulary of narrative figuration, which had begun to spread among the Spanish avant-garde of the time, his work invoked the aesthetics of commercial culture and of the mass media - deeply rooted in social realities. Using wood and polyester reinforced fibreglass, Canogar escaped the boundaries of the canvas adding three-dimensionality, volume and flesh to his figures. The Punishment represents a man being beaten by a policeman, which would not have been an unfamiliar scene in the late 1960s. The disturbing vignette, which physically invades the viewer’s domain, was interpreted as a wakeup call to engage with the social unrest that defined those turbulent years in Francoist Spain.
Sofia Gotti September 2015