Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, a gold-plated phonograph recording containing sounds and images selected in the late 1970s by a team at NASA to portray life on Earth to extraterrestrials.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Portrait of the artist by Sean Su Photography)
Solo Exhibition
Congratulations to Houston-based artist Dario Robleto! Dario’s work is part of the Nasher Museum’s collection. He is also a member of our national Board of Advisors.
Dario’s solo show The Signal opened at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, a gold-plated phonograph recording containing sounds and images selected in the late 1970s by a team at NASA to portray life on Earth to extraterrestrials.
TOP IMAGE: Dario Robleto, American Seabed (detail), 2014. Fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones salvaged from the sea (1 to 10 million years), various butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched and pulled audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row,” concrete, ocean water, pigments, coral, brass, steel, Plexiglas, Courtesy of the artist, © Dario Robleto.
Also this spring, Dario’s 2017 sculpture Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Look closely and you will spy a Vermeer in the background. The acquisition contributes to the National Gallery’s goal of reflecting the nation, according to the website.
Contemporary artist Dario Robleto’s conceptual practice is often based on scientifically informed inquiries. For ‘Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas,’ the artist imagined what gift might be given to extraterrestrials to best represent planet Earth. One of Robleto’s most significant projects within a growing body of work about the search for alien life, ‘Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas’ uses elemental, primary forms to craft a message of generosity that other species might be able to understand.
National Gallery of Art
Artist Dario Robleto
This is a 12-minute video about Texas-based artist Dario Robleto, whose work is part of the Nasher Museum collection. In this video, the artist talks about his mixed-media triptych, Lamb of Man / Atom and Eve / America...
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