Dario Robleto
Setlists For a Setting Sun (Dark Was the Night)
2013
Physical Qualities
Cyanotypes, prints, watercolor paper, butterflies, butterfly antennae made from stretched audiotape of Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was the Night” (Recorded 1927, launched on Voyager I probe in 1977), various cave minerals and crystals, homemade crystals, coral, nickel plated sea urchin shells, sea urchin teeth, various seashells, beetle wings, ocean water, pigments, cut paper, mica flakes, feathers, mirrors, plastic and glass domes, audio recording, digital player, headphones, wood, polyurethane, Plexiglas, Overall: 61 x 45 x 45 in. (154.9 x 114.3 x 114.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Ellen W. P. Wasserman Acquisitions Endowment, and Frederick R. Weisman Contemporary Art Acquisitions Endowment
Object Number
2015.45
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2015; Inman Gallery, Houston
Kristen Hileman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Front Room: Dario Robleto," November 16, 2014 - February 22, 2015
Kerry Inman Gallery, "Dario Robleto: Life, Left to Struggle in the Sun," September 5 - October 18, 2015
Kerry Inman Gallery, "Dario Robleto: Life, Left to Struggle in the Sun," September 5 - October 18, 2015
Bunch, Robert Craig. The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
