Darío Escobar works in various media: sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing. Escobar’s work makes use of the concept of the readymade, but the objects Escobar choose are always altered in some way or another, so they become a modified abstraction of a ready-made and turned into his own idiom. Through the alterations as well as the placement in an artistic context the objects gain new meanings. General themes in Escobar’s work are the complex relations between globalization, aesthetics, colonialism, modernism and consumerism. The structural power relations between these concepts are investigated through attention to both materials and space as well as the different connotations connected with the objects chosen.

Darío Escobar’s Construccion Geometrica can be seen as a mediated abstraction, where the main idea is to investigate the concept of an abstract standard and geometric consciousness. The work, a wooden panel for a truck in Guatemala, becomes a mediated abstracted object with traces to it's originality.
Darío Escobar says:
The works consist of wooden truck bodies composed of panels, which form a structure attached to the wall. Hinges make some of them movable, while others are fixed in place. The geometric designs are made with an oil-based paint, inspired by fields of pure colors, from adjacent to complementary. These kind of bodies are commonly found in trucks that carry fruit, vegetables, textiles and other types of cargo from the Guatemalan provinces to the capital city, which is home to the businesses that support the economy of most Guatemalans.
The works use the same techniques, be it a chromatic pallet or the formal and structural aspects that carpentry workshops use. These workshops build and decorate panels for commercial trucks. The main idea of the project is to investigate the concept of an abstract standard and geometric consciousness in a country like Guatemala, which is still waiting for progress and modernity.
It is interesting to see how in a large part of Latin American territory geometric art is carried out very effectively. It is important to consider the fusion of two forms of thought in pre-Hispanic history, as well as the idea of interpreting reality from a more pure aspect such as color. These truck bodies become true geometric reliefs on which chromatic, formal and structural aspects combine to make us think about whether modernism is yet to come, or if it may have already arrived without us realizing it.
Darío Escobar’s (b. 1971) lives and works in Guatemala and Mexico. Escobar has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and is represented in collections like Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (AT) Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City (MX), The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, (US) and latest in Detroit Institute of Art Collection, USA.