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Artworks
Darío Escobar
Construcción Geométrica Nº 5, 2014Wood, iron and paint179 x 625 x 122 cm
70.47 x 246.06 x 48.03 inDE14022Further images
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Darío Escobar works in various media, including sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing. His work engages with the concept of the readymade, but the objects he chooses are always altered in...Darío Escobar works in various media, including sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing. His work engages with the concept of the readymade, but the objects he chooses are always altered in one way or another. As a result, they become modified abstractions of the readymade and are transformed into his own idiom. Through these alterations, as well as their placement in an artistic context, the objects gain new meanings. General themes in Escobar’s work include the complex relationships between globalization, aesthetics, colonialism, modernism, and consumerism. The structural power relations between these concepts are explored through attention to materials, space, and the different connotations associated with the chosen objects.
Darío Escobar’s "Construcción Geométrica Nº 5" can be seen as a mediated abstraction. The main idea is to investigate the concept of an abstract standard and geometric consciousness. The work is a wooden truck panel from Guatemala that becomes a mediated, abstracted object while still retaining traces of its original context.
It consists of wooden truck panels that form a structure attached to the wall. Hinges make some of them movable, while others are fixed in place. The geometric designs are created with oil-based paint and are inspired by fields of pure color, ranging from adjacent to complementary tones. These types of truck bodies are commonly found on trucks that carry fruit, vegetables, textiles, and other goods from the Guatemalan provinces to the capital city, supporting much of the country’s economy.
The work forms part of a larger series and uses the same techniques, both in chromatic palette and in formal and structural aspects, as those employed in carpentry workshops that build and decorate panels for commercial trucks. It investigates the concept of an abstract standard and geometric consciousness in a country like Guatemala, where ideas of progress and modernity remain complex and unresolved.
Across much of Latin America, geometric art is carried out with notable effectiveness. This can be understood in relation to the fusion of different modes of thought rooted in pre-Hispanic history, alongside an approach to interpreting reality through pure color and form. These truck panels become geometric reliefs in which chromatic, formal, and structural elements combine, prompting reflection on whether modernism is still to come or whether it may have already arrived without being fully recognized.Exhibitions
2014: 5 - RPM (Revolutions per minute), 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, GT
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