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Esteban del Valle
Esteban del Valle, originally from Chicago, Illinois, completed his BFA at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 2007. Esteban is drawn to the iconic imagery of revolutionary struggles as they appear in photography, film, and the genre of history painting. Through the process of reductive charcoal drawing, he seeks to reconstruct the monolithic revolutionary moment. Looking at the relationship between theology and the pursuit of democracy, Esteban attempts to create a space that discusses the consequences of certain ideologies and methods. The theatrical space implied by the rendering of dramatic settings, or by the sheer scale of a monumental drawing, allows the viewer to become a witness and possibly an actor in an imagined scene. Influenced by Augusto Boal’s book, “Theatre of the Oppressed,” Esteban has begun to see painting not as the stage for the revolutionary action in and of itself, but rather a space for the rehearsal of revolutionary thoughts.
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