Darío Escobar Guatemala, b. 1971

His work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion in the field of visual arts and the history of art itself.

Escobar's work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships in contemporary life: the relationship we have with the myriad masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption, and the questioning of the popular and the cultured. Produced objects that invade our daily experience and reflect on our own space in the social, political and economic systems that sustain this existence.

Since the late 1990s, it has mobilized a wide range of everyday consumer and industrial products: McDonald's cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized tires, car bumpers, and sports equipment of various kinds to build an ongoing dialogue with the reality of the world. global consumerism. That dialogue has invariably also incorporated a lengthy conversation with crafting through the ages.

Collections:

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Centre Pompidou, Paris

La Colección Jumex, Mexico

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Museo del Barrio, New York

The Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Los Angeles

Museum of Fine Arts [MFA], Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts [MFAH], Houston

Pérez Art Museum, Miami

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna