Painting, Video & Installation | Digswells Arts, Fenners, Letchworth Garden City | 2015
PROJECT INFORMATION
The exhibition explored some of the kitsch aspects associated with Halloween as well as the horror. This was an experimental exhibition combining painting, video and installation works.
EXHIBITION TEXT
"Take a walk down sodium lit streets and darkened neural pathways this Halloween as the artist John Vincent paints the everyday with a coat of sinister.
This darkly humorous exhibition has been inspired by revisiting the book ‘Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-twentieth-century Art’ with its ideas of the uncanny, decay and a ‘pre-millennial tension’ as it documented a Gothic ‘thread’ within artists’ work up to the year 1997.
Firmly in the new millennium, the work in this exhibition forms a starting point to explore some of these themes through familiar images and objects such as: sandy beaches, items found in the garden, or re-engaging objects with their original meaning and the persistence of superstition with its double edged nature of absurdity and danger."
