Daniel Escobar
Porto Alegre (RS)
Ainda Paisagem [série Perto Demais]
[Still a Landscape (Too Close series)], 2008
Artist Daniel Escobar usually uses objects connected with the world of desire and consumption as raw material. In this work, he appropriates the billboard, an urban advertising piece by excellence, and overlaps four layers to build a “painting” by adding to the large-format print a new film with small holes punched one by one with an office puncher. The result of the deconstruction, accumulation and displacement operations (the indoor billboard) is a complex image with a clear metonymical relationship with the city.
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list of works
Affective Urban Archeology, 2011
Always Something Between Us,
2012 to 2014Av. Celso Garcia 2004/2014,
2004 and 2014Floating Letters – Mapping of the Sign Painters, 2014
From the Obliterado [Obliterated] series, 2012
Half-Mile Apartment/House City/
Flow House, 2014I <3 Peddler, 2009 and Sand Strip, 2009
Parking City, 2012 and Parking.ttf, 2012
Pixação: São Paulo Signature, 2004
list of authors
photo: Maíra Acayaba
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Work detail | photo: Miguel Aun
Work detail | photo: Miguel Aun
Work detail | photo: Daniel Escobar
about the author
Graduated in Visual Arts, Daniel researches the landscapes of desire created by consumption and entertainment habits, and adapts ordinary and daily objects and symbols of the urban world. He took part in several expositions in Brazil and abroad, was granted scholarships and outstanding awards, and had an international one-man exhibition at RH Gallery, in New York. His works are distributed in public and private collections, both nationally and internationally.