Darío Escobar Guatemala, b. 1971
By combining an organic material as wood [...] with industrial design objects formed by mechanization, a really interesting hybrid emerges. The delicate sense of handcraft reflected in the woodwork combined with the unused industrial consumer products are part of the same story and take part in the ongoing dialogue about the life of the object and the way we relate to it. The essence lies in this permeable two-way deconstruction of the nature of objects and the creation of new modes of expression.Darío Escobar
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
