At 10am today, the doors will be open for HORROR VACUI! at the - TopicsExpress



          

At 10am today, the doors will be open for HORROR VACUI! at the Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA The reception opening is this coming Friday 30th of May at 5.30 -7.30PM. The artist will present a two-hour work titled Silvered Self-Portrait. HORROR VACUI! New Zealand born, Las Vegas-based artist Matthew Couper presents HORROR VACUI!, a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring paintings, sculpture, digital projects and performance that link together personalities, architecture and forms that relate to the intensely visual experience of the city. The exhibition holds a mirror up to his own practice as an artist and his new home of Las Vegas, and uses a vampire theme as a linchpin in making connections between the two. Playful word associations, analogies and puns bridge the gaps and allow the viewer a romp through the similarities. Painting as an art medium has been declared dead by artists and critics over and over, yet continues to live on in use after claimed rebirth(s). Las Vegas casinos are imploded only to be raised again on the same ground. Undead, blood-sucking, nocturnal beings rise each night from their coffins. The correlations are surprisingly abundant and the unlikely juxtaposition of imagery is intentionally amusing. Horror Vacui fills the gallery from floor to ceiling with artwork that references art history, Las Vegas history, the philosophies behind its visual culture (with special attention to simulacra) and of course - Dracula. Horror vacui is the Latin postulate in physics, usually translated as nature abhors a vacuum.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:07:11 +0000

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