New York artist Vincent Castiglia is noted for painting with what unconventional substance?
Vincent Castiglia Vincent Castiglia Vincent Castiglia (born April 8, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American painter. He paints figurative paintings with metaphysical and often nightmarish subject matters, exclusively in human blood (iron oxide) on paper. Castiglia's paintings are monochromatic tableaux examining life, death, and the human condition. Dominant work themes include the symbiosis of birth and death, the transience of man, and the pitfalls of mortality. The images themselves, as he sees them, form as crystallizations of Castiglia's experiences, freed from the psyche. Through his work the viewer is forced into a re-acquaintance with life and urgency that might not
Vincent Castiglia expressionist Francis Bacon, the contemporary mythologism, mythicalism and folk painter Elito Circa as well as conceptual artist Damien Hirst whose explicit portrayals of death are in similar form. In 2009, Vincent painted album art for Triptykon's 2010 debut release, "Eparistera Daimones". The group is founded by former Hellhammer / Celtic Frost singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer. The album's art is an amalgamation of works by HR Giger (cover art), Vincent Castiglia (interior art), and Triptykon on "Eparistera Daimones", which conceptually is understood to form a creative triptych in itself. 2010 Horror-Slasher Film, "Savage County", features a specially created painting