This Friday, October 12, from 6:30 to 8:30pm, multimedia artist Daniel Canogar will host a reception and artist’s talk discussing the work he’s done at Montalvo, including Asalto and his exhibition The Film Trilogy. We asked Daniel what he was most looking forward to about Friday night’s reception. This is what he had to say: “For me, this talk is both a tremendous opportunity and gift. Much of the communication that happens in the professional art world is very frustrating. You have an opening, and perhaps that evening some people will tell you in passing that they like your work. If you’re lucky, you might get a review with the critic going into more detail. But as an artist, there are very few occasions to have an in-depth dialogue with the public about your ideas; ideas that you have spent years, maybe even your whole career, considering and exploring. I’m always very interested in hearing people’s reactions, and what they think my work is about. Sometimes they see things that I haven’t, and their insights are really brilliant and help shape my future projects. I also look forward to sharing with people an as accurate as possible portrait of my creative process: you know, to let them see the kitchen and learn how things got cooked up. When people encounter the finished work, they get no insight into the course of action that lead to its completion. It’s much more realistic and interesting to explain the false starts, the mistakes, the learning processes, and describe how things changed along the way. And I hope, most of all, that learning about my process will encourage people to explore their own creative projects.”
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Artist Hemali Bhuta was an artist-in-residence at Montalvo in 2010. Her work is the subject of an extensive write-up in today’s New York Times. Congratulations, Hemali! You can read more about Hemali on her residency profile page on the Montalvo website. Image taken from the New York Times, photo originally courtesy of Hugo Glendinning/Rolex.
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