Lago has been concerned with issues of accessibility in art and has chosen to explore this through sculpture. Using objects from everyday life by combining and juxtaposition to reveal a physiological language of objects. Over the past twenty years he has been represented by Annely Juda Fine Art, London showing alongside artists such as Anthony Caro, David Nash and Christo. More recently being represented by Maxwell Davidson Gallery in New York. His works are in the Saatchi collection, the Arts Council Collection, the Contemporary Art Society and numerous other collections around the world.
Our daily lives are influenced by what surrounds us – the objects in our houses, the chairs we sit in, the cars in our streets, the towers in our cities and the clothes we wear. We reveal our inner character by what we buy. It is within this dialogue between ourselves and the objects we select to be part of our lives that Darren Lago focuses his art.
Examples of his sculpture include a mannequin's leg fused with a wine bottle forming a sensuous but disturbing form, his humorous Bum Tower alludes to Brancusi both in form and content.
Born in Walsall in 1965, Lago’s one-person exhibitions have included those at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, Haus Bill in Zumikon, Switzerland and the 1000 Eventi Gallery in Milan.
British, b. 1965