Dario Robleto

Today at my internship, I was doing research on artists and came across this guy.

Dario Robleto is currently based in San Antonio, TX and is making some really incredible work. A lot of it involves a recycling and recombination of disparate materials and he even has works that reference DJ culture. He's someone I'm keeping in mind for any future exhibitions. I just dig his work.


Chrysanthemum Anthems, 2004
11 x 18 inches
Homemade paper (pulp made from a poem a WWI soldier wrote while recovering in the hospital, dried and crushed chrysanthemum petals, crushed blood root, bugleweed, sweet balsam, rose water, rose oil, peppermint oil, sunflower oil, dandelion oil, aloe juice, cotton), melted shrapnel and bullet lead, cold cast steel and brass, polyester resin, rust, bone glue, typeset Original score for violin and fife composed for soldier's poem

Score assistance by Justin Boyd.

At War With The Entropy Of Nature/Ghosts Don't Always Want To Come Back, 2002.

Cassette: carved bone & bone dust from every bone in the body, trinitite (glass produced during the first atomic test explosion at Trinity test site circa 1945, when heat from blast melted surrounding sand), metal screws, rust, letraset; audio tape: an original composition of military drum marches, weapon fire, and soldiers' voices from battlefields of various wars made from Electronic Voice Phenomena recordings (voices and sounds of the dead or past, detected through magnetic audio tape).

from Sometimes Billie Is All That Keeps Me Together, 1998

Shirt, buttons made from melted and recast Billie Holiday Vinyl Records and acrylic spray paint

Dimensions variable