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Darío Escobar

Conceptual artist Dario Escobar’s large-scale installations made from sports equipment are not purely about play: Escobar uses these popular recreational objects to look at Guatamala’s history and culture in a global context. In this vein, Escobar’s work famously uses common and mass-produced materials (like motor oil, bicycle tires, or soccer balls) in conjunction with traditional Guatemalan artisanal techniques and mythological references. Escobar modifies and shapes these found objects and artifacts of material culture into abstract forms that belong to two time periods simultaneously, as in his “Quetzalcoatl” pieces (2003) that turned steel and vulcanized rubber into primordial biomorphic forms.

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Selected artworks

  • Darío Escobar, Mensajes cifrados №21, 2022

    Darío Escobar Mensajes cifrados №21, 2022

    Metal, Pigments and Gold
    216 x 90 x 30 cm
    85 x 35 1/2 x 12 in

  • Darío Escobar, Mensajes cifrados Nº29, 2022

    Darío Escobar Mensajes cifrados Nº29, 2022

    Metal, Pigments and Gold
    89 x 59 x 5 cm
    35 x 23 x 2 in

  • Darío Escobar, Mensajes cifradoes Nº30, 2022

    Darío Escobar Mensajes cifradoes Nº30, 2022

    Metal, Pigments and Gold
    145 x 145 x 5 cm
    57 x 57 x 2 in

  • Darío Escobar, Mensajes cifrados Nº24, 2022

    Darío Escobar Mensajes cifrados Nº24, 2022

    Metal and pigments
    90 x 108 x 5 cm
    35 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 2 in

  • Darío Escobar, Mensajes cifrados Nº25, 2022

    Darío Escobar Mensajes cifrados Nº25, 2022

    Metal, pigments and gold
    122 x 88 x 5 cm
    48 x 34 1/2 x 2 in

Gallery exhibitions