Dario Escobar
The Blacksmith Project
May 30 – July 18, 2013
Opening reception: Thursday, May 30, from 6-8pm
Renowned for his sculptural re-contextualization of everyday objects,
Dario Escobar's work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity
ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan
perspective.
The Blacksmith Project is an exhibition based on two absences: the absence
of the painted object and the absence of the subject who painted it. The show
consists of 11 anonymous paintings by Dario Escobar. It is a new body of
'self-generated' or 'performative' paintings. The artist has explored similar
removal processes in other work, such as his Acccidentes - sculptures created
by extracting bumpers from crashed trucks and re-chroming them as new.
