Darío Escobar
Bio/CV
Available works
Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar, Guatemala 1971. Lives between Mexico City and Guatemala City. His work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion within the visual arts and the history of art itself. Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured.
Bio/CV
Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar, Guatemala 1971. Lives between Mexico City and Guatemala City. His work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion within the visual arts and the history of art itself.
Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured. Darío Escobar’s work belongs in a territory of objects that invade our everyday life and reflect on our own space in the social, political, and economic systems that sustain our existence.
Since the late 1990s, he has mobilized a wide range of industrial and everyday consumer products: McDonald’s cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized tires, car bumpers and sports equipment of various kinds, in order to construct an ongoing dialogue with the reality of the world global consumerism. That dialogue, invariably, has also incorporated an extensive conversation with the making of objects through the ages.
His work has been shown individually and collectively, and collected in different public and private institutions, among which we can mention: Museum of Contemporary Art [MCA], Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts [MFA], Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts [MFAH], Houston; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris; Jumex Museum, Mexico; National Museum of Art [MUNAL], Mexico; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Detroit Institute of Arts [DIA], Detroit; Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University, North Carolina; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; among others.
Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured. Darío Escobar’s work belongs in a territory of objects that invade our everyday life and reflect on our own space in the social, political, and economic systems that sustain our existence.
Since the late 1990s, he has mobilized a wide range of industrial and everyday consumer products: McDonald’s cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized tires, car bumpers and sports equipment of various kinds, in order to construct an ongoing dialogue with the reality of the world global consumerism. That dialogue, invariably, has also incorporated an extensive conversation with the making of objects through the ages.
His work has been shown individually and collectively, and collected in different public and private institutions, among which we can mention: Museum of Contemporary Art [MCA], Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts [MFA], Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts [MFAH], Houston; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris; Jumex Museum, Mexico; National Museum of Art [MUNAL], Mexico; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Detroit Institute of Arts [DIA], Detroit; Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University, North Carolina; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; among others.
Available works
Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar, Guatemala 1971. Lives between Mexico City and Guatemala City. His work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion within the visual arts and the history of art itself. Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured.
Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar, Guatemala 1971. Lives between Mexico City and Guatemala City. His work is characterized by the formal and conceptual investigation of objects and their insertion within the visual arts and the history of art itself.
Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured. Darío Escobar’s work belongs in a territory of objects that invade our everyday life and reflect on our own space in the social, political, and economic systems that sustain our existence.
Since the late 1990s, he has mobilized a wide range of industrial and everyday consumer products: McDonald’s cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized tires, car bumpers and sports equipment of various kinds, in order to construct an ongoing dialogue with the reality of the world global consumerism. That dialogue, invariably, has also incorporated an extensive conversation with the making of objects through the ages.
His work has been shown individually and collectively, and collected in different public and private institutions, among which we can mention: Museum of Contemporary Art [MCA], Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts [MFA], Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts [MFAH], Houston; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris; Jumex Museum, Mexico; National Museum of Art [MUNAL], Mexico; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Detroit Institute of Arts [DIA], Detroit; Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University, North Carolina; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; among others.
Escobar’s work has continually challenged the viewer to reconsider the most central relationships of contemporary life: the relationship we have with the gaze of masses, the elaboration of new identities based on consumption and the questioning of the popular and the cultured. Darío Escobar’s work belongs in a territory of objects that invade our everyday life and reflect on our own space in the social, political, and economic systems that sustain our existence.
Since the late 1990s, he has mobilized a wide range of industrial and everyday consumer products: McDonald’s cups, cereal boxes, vulcanized tires, car bumpers and sports equipment of various kinds, in order to construct an ongoing dialogue with the reality of the world global consumerism. That dialogue, invariably, has also incorporated an extensive conversation with the making of objects through the ages.
His work has been shown individually and collectively, and collected in different public and private institutions, among which we can mention: Museum of Contemporary Art [MCA], Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art [MoCA], Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts [MFA], Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts [MFAH], Houston; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris; Jumex Museum, Mexico; National Museum of Art [MUNAL], Mexico; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Detroit Institute of Arts [DIA], Detroit; Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University, North Carolina; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; among others.