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Artworks
Darío Escobar
Eclipse, 2025Steel and pigments46 x 86.5 x 96 cm
18.11 x 34.06 x 37.8 inDE25013$ 30,000.00Further images
In Eclipse, Darío Escobar explores the intersection of play, structure, and cultural memory through a sculptural constellation of found basketball hoops. Installed intact but reoriented in the corner of a...In Eclipse, Darío Escobar explores the intersection of play, structure, and cultural memory through a sculptural constellation of found basketball hoops. Installed intact but reoriented in the corner of a room, the work transforms everyday sports equipment into a spatial diagram – evoking celestial alignments, ritual geometries, and the choreography of bodies in motion.
Echoing earlier works made from soccer balls, bicycle tires, or baseball bats, Eclipse reconfigures mass-produced objects of leisure into sculptural forms. The worn surfaces retain their utilitarian logic, speaking to cycles of use, circulation, and obsolescence.
By preserving the material history of the objects – their dents, scratches, and industrial finish – Eclipse becomes a meditation on repetition, ritual, and the politics embedded in leisure. It positions sport as a contemporary echo of colonial structures and invites reflection on how form, function, and cultural memory intersect in the most familiar things.
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