VICTOR CASTILLO

Scope New York
IguapopGallery participará en la feria Scope en New York. Presentaremos obra nueva de Victor Castillo, Mike Swaney, Blami y Erica il Cane. Del 26 al 30 de marzo de 2008.


Puttin' on the Dog
Acrilico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm


Love Machine
Acrilico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm


Lie to me
Acrilico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm

ArtCal Zine - Armory Show Week 2008 Coverage

First View at Scope
By Daniel Larkin | SCOPE | March 27, 2008

The Scope art fair is a large tent next to the Metropolitan Opera House. Although, there are some familiar New York galleries, the fair was noteworthy for its strong presence of Spanish, German and Swiss Galleries as well a few Italian and London galleries. There was not a single French gallery present. It was an excellent opportunity to see the work of European artists who are not as invested in the American trajectory and its story of modern and postmodern art that still dominates the New York Scene on some level.

Victor Castillo, Lie to Me The paintings of Victor Castillo stood at the Iguapop Gallery's stand. This Barcelona Gallery is presenting the works of this Chilean artist who now works in Barcelona. His style and subject is straight out of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in the most clever and engaging manner possible. There is a certain virtuoso in paintings that imitate that crisp CIG animiation style. Like the movie, his works manage to be dark without becoming garishly creepy and light hearted without becoming irritatingly juvenile. He has struck an impressive balance between conflicting extremes. The long red noses of many of the works add comic appeal and Pinocchio reference. There is a tenebristic composition in many of the pieces, which produces that classic and entrancing glow.

http://zine.artcal.net/armory2008/2008/03/first-view-at-scope.php

SCOPE Pavilion
Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park
Corner of West 62nd Street and Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10023


www.scopenewyork.com
www.iguapop.net
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