The professor of IE School of Architecture Daniel Canogar is named ambassador of Segovia 2016

The visual artist Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) has been named Segovia 2016 Ambassador today. Professor of IE School of Architecture , Canogar is the creator chosen to realize the work that will represent the Spanish Council presidency during the first half of the year. His great light work ‘Travesías’ (Crossings) is installed at the European Council, showing people moving symbolizing the European Union advance.

But being this his last work, Canogar has an extensive career that leads him to exhibit permanently in many national and international art galleries, and temporally in a great number of exhibition halls too.

Some of Canogar´s main works are two photographic walls at Napoles Arensa railway station, a public show about Río de Janeiro Lapa Archs, or video-shows about the Madrid Puerta de Alcalá and Roma San Pietro in Montorio Church. Currently he works in a permanent artistic installation over the Manzanares River in Madrid.

In Segovia he has participated in the Artistic Interventions Over Historical Spaces Festival ‘Oxigenarte’ through his work ‘Asalto’, interactive video-show that invited people to assault the Alcazar castle virtually. He is also a professor of ‘Experimentation’ at the IE School of Architecture in Segovia, allowing his students to get in touch with the contemporary creation.

For all this Segovia proposed to have Daniel Canogar as one of the Ambassadors of its Candidacy to the European Capital of Culture. And Canogar summarizes in a visionary sentence what this city represents to him: “Segovia is an excellent cultural experiment that must be a model for a Europe always debating between the historic weight of its past and a desire to maintain itself at the contemporary culture avant-garde".

In Canogar´s words said in this morning appointment, “we have to give a boost to what is happening today, to put citizens in contact with their past but with their present too. In this sense, Segovia 2016 has possibilities for this city is betting firmly for the contemporary culture through festivals as Oxigenarte. I will try to carry this artistic and poetic bet to a good end, in a city with so iconic buildings that inspire fantasy so much”.

Other Ambassadors 2016 are the actress and TV broadcaster Eva Hache, the glass master Carlos Muñoz de Pablos, the Childhood and Youth Venezuela Orchestras precursor Jose Antonio Abreu, the photographer Ouka Leele, the choreographer and dancer Angel Corella, the cyclist Pedro Delgado, the theatre director Ana Zamora, the puppeteer of Titirimundi Festival, the Jorunalism Cirilo Rodríguez Award, The folklore group Nuevo Mester de Juglaria, the journalist Rosa Maria Calaf, the films director Jaime Chavarri and the writer Espido Freire.