Daniel Dobarco

Statement

Daniel Dobarco focuses his production on painting and sculpture, creating spaces that reference the world of video games and fantasy culture. His work creates a fictitious world from a tragicomic point of view which is inhabited by certain beings extracted from the new gamer mythology, fiction literature and popular culture, but in the end this is nothing more than a histrionic reflection of ourselves. This fictional world is used as a gateway to talk about things that would not fit in ours, personal and social concerns without having the need to be legible or justify itself, being able to play and turn the speech into something obtuse and strange, a place of refuge and analysis.

GlogauAIR Project

out of the dungeon

This project is based on dungeons, role-playing games, known as dungeon crawler. It starts with the idea of travel and search, which in videogame language it is known as quest. Out of the dungeon is about a person like me, who armed with a pack of cigarettes, cell phone, wallet and the keys to the Toyota in hand, enters the eerie doors of the dungeon. Persuaded by the gossip of the people of his village that he is going to find all kinds of wonderful things, but beware, there are orcs! His parents warned him, the difficulty of the game varies according to class, race, gender, trade… and that you better have good skills, be an artist do not even try, there are more orcs. The funny thing happens during the tour, they were right in many things, you begin to understand what is the real fatigue, not making ends meet because half of the chests are fake, the keys do not fit any door and you do not have enough for potions, suddenly you have a parasite stuck in your head and it tells you it’s called stress, you smoke a cigarette. But there are also good things, you realize the otherness, the alien, the orc, the other, maybe it’s not so different from you, maybe it’s not your nemesis. In the end, instead of fighting stupidly, you end up going as Buñuel and you start documenting those similarities, those orcs that have their intimacy, whose gestures are not so different from yours. You make a kind of travel diary with what you have at hand, some fabrics and some pots that you buy from some low cost magician, some cardboard that you take out of the dumpster at work to make an installation. Here begins my diary, welcome to Out of the dungeon.

CV Summary

Daniel holds a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Artistic Production from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. He is currently the recipient of the Producción Hàbitat artístic Castelló grant (2023) in residence at GlogauAir in Berlin.

His work has been exhibited in many galleries around Spain, including Tuesday to Friday, Valencia (2021 y 2023) and Galería Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca (2023).

GROUP SHOWS

• 2023 DREAM PAPER 2. Gallery Slika. Lyon. France
• 2023 POSTMODERNISM. La Pera Projects. on-line.
• 2023 PANORAMA 06. Fran Reus gallery, Palma de Mallorca. Spain
• 2022 LA SUERTE DE LA SONRISA. Coloring The World Foundation, Factory of Dreams, Madrid. Spain
• 2022 ARTE APARTE XIV. La carolina, Jaen. Spain
• 2021 SUPERFACIL. Tuesday to Friday gallery, Valencia. Spain
• 2021 DEPRISA, DEPRISA. Group Show. Valencia. Spain

SHOWS

• 2023 LOOT. Tuesday to Friday gallery, Valencia. Spain
• 2022 LORE. Espacio Luna. Internet Moon gallery. Valencia. Spain
• 2020 CRUZETA. Tuesday to Friday gallery, Valencia. Spain
• 2021 BELLUM, BELLI, BELLO. Nivi Collblanc gallery. Castellón. Spain
• 2020 BELLUM, BELLI, BELLO. GlogauAir, Opening Studio. Berlín. Germany

ART FAIRS

• 2019 Marte, Castellón International Art Fair 6th Edition, Marte Orbital Expedition Stand, Castellón. Spain.
• 2018 Marte, Castellón International Art Fair 5th Edition, Marte Orbital Stand, Castellón. Spain.

AWARDS

• 2023 PRODUCTION GRANT, Hàbitat artístic castelló, GlogauAir . Berlín. Germany
• 2019 DÁVALOS-FLETCHER GRANT, Castellón. GlogauAir. Berlín. Germany
• 2018 PRODUCTION GRANT, Hàbitat artístic castelló, la Rectoría. San Pere, Barcelona. Spain
• 2017 FIRST PRIZE, XVII UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA PAINTING PRIZE. Spain
• 2017 AWARDED, 5th SAMPLE OF MULTIMEDIA AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION, PAM!17. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
• 2017 PRODUCTION GRANT , II CULLA CONTEMPORANEA. Culla, Castellón. Spain

EDUCATION

• 2017 Master’s degree in Artistic production, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
• 2016 Bachelor degree in arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
• 2011 Certificate of Higher Education in Ilustration, Castelló School of Arts and Design, Spain

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