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Darío Escobar
Darío Escobar transforms everyday leisure objects such as skateboards, table-tennis paddles, and, as seen here, surfboards into precious items that would seem at home in a royal palace or cathedral from a past era. He does it using a metal-working technique developed in his native Guatemala in the 1600s, when the country was under colonial rule.
Escobar's silver-embossed objects slip between categories of high art and kitsch, mass-produced and handmade. In juxtaposing modern object and ancient technique, the artist creates commentary on the relationships among commercial goods, luxury
or religious objects, and the past and present.
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