Explicit Lyrics (the visual sounds of Victor Castillo)
We teased it. Now you can see it.
right: Game Over | left: Untitled (gargoyle)
Explicit Lyrics, the long awaited solo show from Victor Castillo opened up last month at the Iguapop gallery in Barcelona.
The young Chilean artist’s second major gallery exhibition, this time he depicts a critical portrait of generations to come. Curious about the evolution of shoot’em up games and the real life equivalents of these images, the trends in youth towards broadcasting their own violence and executing brutality without compassion or recognition of actual consequences. As usual, religion and politics are also present in his paintings, supporting characters who continue to scream: The barbarians are wearing Mickey Mouse smiles.
The show heats up in an oven packed installation combining canvas, wall painting, sculpture and video, a cultural inferno where we find two kids laughing as they murder occidental so called civilization as war and fire, Disney classics and of course Godzilla drivel their enthusiasm for the preacher’s sermon.
[EXPLICIT LYRICS] installation view, mixing painting, wall-painting, sculture and video. Two kids demollishing occidental civilization.
I put a spell on you
Supplica a mia madre
Supplica a mia madre I
Son of Sam”, acrylic on canvas
Hallucination generation
Not Boweevil
Are you still dying, darling?
Bucarest
Paris
Viena
Louvre
Installation view
Victor Castillo finishing the wall-painting
