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262 - RAFAEL CANOGAR (Toledo, 1935)
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RAFAEL CANOGAR (Toledo, 1935) "Urban Fossil," 1994. Silkscreen on stone with nerine fossils, print 57/75. Signed, dated, and numbered by hand. Dimensions: 60 x 45 cm; 81 x 65 cm (frame). In “Urban Fossil,” Rafael Canogar establishes a dialogue between geological memory and contemporary language. The work is created on stone with nerine fossils, a medium that introduces a highly significant material and temporal dimension: in contrast to the immediacy of the pictorial gesture, the stone evokes a remote, sedimented, and natural temporality. The title, “Urban Fossil,” is particularly eloquent: it alludes to the overlapping of time—between the ancestral and the modern, between natural matter and artistic intervention. The piece thus combines the memory of the earth with an urban and abstract sensibility, typical of Canogar’s mature work. Rafael Canogar, a founding member of the El Paso group in 1957, was a key figure in the renewal of postwar Spanish art. After his early informalist phase, his work evolved toward new forms of figuration, material experimentation, and gestural abstraction. His work is represented in major collections and museums, including the Museo Reina Sofía, the IVAM, the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, and the Museo Patio Herreriano, among others.
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