Daniel Escobar

Daniel Escobar, 1982, Santo Ângelo, RS, Brazil.
Lives and works in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
It has been a while since questions related to publicity and visual communications devices present in the urban scenes are part of the Daniel Escobar´s artistic repertoire. In the context of his work, elements such as posters and billboard signs, pamphlets, maps and travel guides, painted signs, banners or light signs, articulate themselves generating a group of possible representations for the urban landscape, thinking not only about what they might express about the physical conditions of those spaces, but also the eloquent way in which they reveal a landscape driven by desires and inhabited by consumption dreams. The works are produced from the appropriation of materials filled with meaning in themselves, in which a succession of interferences or even dislocations create twists that modify these senses or aggregate new ones to the already existing senses. The artist always creates some situation that leads to testing these material or circuits limits, knowing to what extent they resist, to establish another visualization time or other involvement levels with these images, information or structures.