VINCENT CASTIGLIA - "Iron Oxide Visions on Paper"
"Feeding" (right), 2005, 36" x 54".
The first solo exhibition of paintings by Vincent Castiglia will open at the H.R. Giger Museum Gallery in November of 2008 and run through mid 2009. Master Swiss-surrealist, H.R. Giger, and his wife Carmen Scheifele Giger, Co-Director of the museum, were first introduced to the artist and his work in 2005, which eventually resulted in an invitation to introduce his work to the many international visitors of Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland.
Castiglia works in the tradition of surrealism and visionary art. When asked for his artist statement, the artist replies, “My paintings tend to depict iconographic forms, vital and necrotic juxtapositions, and reinterpretations of transpersonal experience”.
Castiglia, an internationally renowned New York based tattoo artist and painter, has exhibited his works on paper at museums and galleries in the US, Switzerland and England, including in the 2006 group exhibition of the Society for Art of Imagination at The HR Giger Museum Gallery, Switzerland, The Museum of Sex (New York), The Mall Gallery (London, England) Canvas Los Angeles (Los Angeles California), Fuse Gallery (New York), Art @ Large Gallery (New York) Gallery Lombardi (Austin Texas), C-Pop Gallery (Detroit, Michigan)The 7th Annual Dirty Show (Detroit, Michigan) and Ludlow Gallery (New York), where Castiglia's artwork received its first back-handed compliment, having his artwork stolen right off the gallery’s wall.
The HR Giger Museum, inaugurated in the summer of 1998 in Gruyeres, Switzerland, will celebrate its 10 Anniversary this Summer. It showcases the largest collection of Giger’s work on permanent public display, encompassing his paintings, sculptures, furniture and film designs, including his work on “Alien”, “Poltergeist”, and “Species”. The top floor of the Museum houses Giger’s private collection, which includes over 600 works of art by Salvador Dali, Ernst Fuchs, Dado, Bruno Weber, Günther Brus, Claude Sandoz, François Burland, Friedrich Kuhn, Joe Coleman, Sibylle Ruppert, Andre Lassen, among many others.
The Giger Museum Gallery is located in the adjoining wing of the museum complex, above the H.R. Giger Museum Bar. There, since 1999, and now on a twice a year rotating basis, Giger utilizes the three room exhibition space to show the work of artists, mostly those already in his private collection, in an effort to help broaden the art appreciation of visitors to his museum. Previous exhibitions have been for Wessi, Prof. Ernst Fuchs, Hans Bellmer, Fred Knecht, Stelio Diamantopoulos, Martin Schwarz, Claude Sandoz, Günther Brus, François Burland, Rudolf Stüssi, and the Society for Art of Imagination. Currently on exhibit are the paintings of Victor Safonkin.
The artist will be present at the opening. Castiglia's solo exhibition at the H.R. Giger Museum Gallery will run for six months.
For more information visit the H.R. Giger Museum website.
Vincent Castiglia's Website
Barany Artists' Website
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