Daniel Escobar | Biography | RH Gallery Contemporary Art and Design

Born in 1982 in Santo Angelo, Brazil. Currently lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

Escobar received his Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Arts Institute of “Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul”. In 2009, Daniel was nominated for CNI/SESI Award for the Arts. In 2008, he participated in the 62nd Salon “Paranaense” and was awarded in the 6th National Exhibition of Art in Goiás. In 2006, he was named Project Artist for “Fiat Mostra Brazil”, exhibiting at the Arts Foundation Biennial in São Paulo. He also received the "Prêmio de Incentivo à Criatividade" at the 17th Salon of Porto Alegre. In 2005, Daniel Presented his solo show “Closer” at the Goethe-Institut in Porto Alegre.
Escobar’s work explores issues of representation and perception. In his series Perto Demais, he extracts details from massive publicity posters, erasing their context in the process. In his studio, Escobar uses various interventions such as puncturing holes and layering imagery to distort and create the images anew. In other work, Escobar employs collage and model construction to re-contextualize history and the urban landscape. Mundane advertisements for tourist hotels become pop-up books revealing the chaotic reality of the city within a labyrinth of buildings, people, nature and signs in his Ciadede Secrete.