Asalto Montalvo, a large-scale participatory video projection over the façade of Montalvo’s historic Villa, premiered on July 20, 2012. The artwork, created by Daniel Canogar with artistic engineering by Diego Mellado Martinez, began with a dance performance by Jeannine Charles/ArtistEDGE and featured a newly composed instrumental piece by Charles with a classical uplifting tone inspired by Canogar’s project.
Asalto, which means "storming of..." in Spanish, unfolds in two sequential phases: First, participants were invited to crawl along a horizontal green screen parallel to the ground as if they were climbing up a wall. Then, this filmed action was projected on the Villa’s façade. As the night progressed, images of clambering bodies accumulated, layering on top of one another until eventually the façade of the Villa was immersed by a collection of active human forms.
Asalto collapses the demarcation between spectator and participant. It responds to the specific conditions of the place in which it unfolds. Each iteration engages distinct publics and structures, including a Baroque church in Rome and an abandoned factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Asalto, which means "storming of..." in Spanish, unfolds in two sequential phases: First, participants were invited to crawl along a horizontal green screen parallel to the ground as if they were climbing up a wall. Then, this filmed action was projected on the Villa’s façade. As the night progressed, images of clambering bodies accumulated, layering on top of one another until eventually the façade of the Villa was immersed by a collection of active human forms.
Asalto collapses the demarcation between spectator and participant. It responds to the specific conditions of the place in which it unfolds. Each iteration engages distinct publics and structures, including a Baroque church in Rome and an abandoned factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Watch the projected performance of Asalto Montalvo in the video below.
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Meet the Artist
DANIEL CANOGAR
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Daniel Canogar works with photography, video, sculpture, and installation. He has been commissioned to produce several large-scale public artworks, amongst them: Travesías, an LED sculptural screen created for the atrium of the European Union Council in Brussels; Constellations, a photo-mosaic across pedestrian bridges in Madrid's Parque Rio Manzanares (the largest of its kind in Europe); Nodi, two permanent photographic murals in the Arensa Train Station in Naples; and Clandestinos, a series of video projections on emblematic public monuments in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and Rome.
Website
Daniel Canogar works with photography, video, sculpture, and installation. He has been commissioned to produce several large-scale public artworks, amongst them: Travesías, an LED sculptural screen created for the atrium of the European Union Council in Brussels; Constellations, a photo-mosaic across pedestrian bridges in Madrid's Parque Rio Manzanares (the largest of its kind in Europe); Nodi, two permanent photographic murals in the Arensa Train Station in Naples; and Clandestinos, a series of video projections on emblematic public monuments in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and Rome.
Partners and Sponsors
Asalto Montalvo was made possible through the generous support of the following program partners, exhibition sponsors, and Friends of the Lucas Artists Program: Charmaine and Dan Warmenhoven
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Watch and Listen
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VIDEO
"Asalto" (2009) by Daniel Canogar Projection of Asalto by Daniel Canogar on the Alcázar (or royal palace) of Seville in 2009. This video gives a great view of both the green screen participation and the projection of the piece. Watch Here >> |
