While you guys continue to Demand to see Savage County on MTV, Bloody Disgusting has a special giveaway where you can win one of ten special prints designed by New York artist Vincent Castiglia! Get the details inside. On the last weekend before prom, a mismatched group of high school kids heads to a remote pond to drink beer and hang out. When the beer runs dry, the conversation turns to daring Patrick, the runt of the group, into knocking on the door of the Hardells – the reclusive family that owns the land the pond is on. Patrick takes up the dare, knocks on the Hardells’ door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a shotgun. When Patrick’s friends come to his defense, the oldest Hardell is killed in the shuffle. Scared and guilty – the teens flee the crime. When the rest of the Hardell clan finds the old man murdered, they seek out vengeance. One-by-one, the teens are hunted down by Orry, the sexually oppressed mute, Willard, the long-haired wildman, and Kasper, the cold-blooded family leader.
Vincent Castiglia is a NYC-based painter and surrealist who shows internationally and was selected by H.R. Giger to show in the H.R. Giger Museum Gallery in Switzerland. Vincent makes paintings about “the finitude of the individual human existence” and he makes them using his own blood as a medium.
The Savage County crew commissioned Vincent to create a painting for the flick – a special edition of the poster, which he recently completed and which will be showing in his upcoming solo show at the Meta Gallery in Toronto.
Bloody Disgusting was supplied with (10) prints signed by Vincent for some lucky BD readers to enter to win. Here’s how:
To Enter: Put SAVAGE COUNTY in the subject line and then send your FULL NAME and FULL ADDRESS to submit@bloody-disgusting.com
Winners chosen at random this coming weekend.
“Savage County” – Movie Poster Painting:
Title: “Savage County”
Year: 2010
Dimensions: 19.5″ x 14.5″
Background info for painting: Vincent was contacted by Matthew Manos to paint the piece for Savage County. In collaboration with Matthew and Savage County film Director, David Harris, the painting was created, depicting the three murderers in the film (as well as the barnyard vat used to dissolve the bodies of the victims). The painting is layered “profusely” using only human blood, and marks what is now the 1st Horror-Film Poster to be painted in this medium.
Fans can get the official, Savage County Poster exclusively through Castiglia’s webstore
BIO: Vincent Castiglia: Existential Visionary Artist
Castiglia’s paintings are monochromatic tableaux examining life, death, and the human condition. While many surrealists cite fantasy or dreams as their inspiration, Castiglia’s canvases are connected to a life story which is highly allegorical.
The archetypal figures in Castiglia’s work embody the finitude of individual human existence. The viewer is presented with the symbiosis of birth and death. The images themselves, as he sees them, form as crystallizations of his experiences, freed from the psyche; the viewer is not only allowed to see into the figure, but also through it, into a deeper psychological world.
Vincent Castiglia is the 1st American artist to receive a solo exhibition invitation from Oscar Award-winning artist H.R. Giger in the history of the H. R. Giger Museum Gallery. The exquisite museum, located in the Château St. Germain (Gruyeres, Switzerland), furnished a cordial reception for Castiglia’s inaugural body of work, Remedy for the Living. Remedy for the Living, the 1st solo exhibition of paintings by Vincent Castiglia opened on November 1st 2008 and ran for 6 months, closing in April of 2009.
2010 marked the Film and Music debut for Castiglia’s art. MTV New Media’s forthcoming Horror-Slasher Film, “Savage County”, features as it’s official movie poster a painting by Vincent Castiglia, depicting the three murderers in the film. The film, directed by David Harris, also features producers David Gale (Varsity Blues) and Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow). Leading the cast is Mimi Michaels (Boogeyman 3). Savage County is described as a tribute to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Earlier in the year, Castiglia 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.
His work hangs in many distinguished international collections; one of his most celebrated works of 2006, “Gravity” was recently acquired by Rock legend Gregg Allman.
Castiglia’s paintings have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the US, and internationally, including CoproGallery, (Santa Monica, California), Last Rites Gallery (New York) The Museum of Sex (New York), The Museum Of Porn In Art, (Switzerland), The HR Giger Museum Gallery, (Switzerland), , The Mall Gallery (London, England) Canvas Los Angeles (Los Angeles California), Fuse Gallery (New York), Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (Ft. Myers, Florida), Art @ Large Gallery (New York) Gallery Lombardi (Austin Texas), L’imagerie Gallery (Hollywood, California), Museo De La Cuidad De Mexico, (Mexico), C-Pop Gallery (Detroit, Michigan), Shooting Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Seed Gallery (Newark, New Jersey), The 7th Annual Dirty Show (Detroit, Michigan), as well as The Congregation Gallery (Hollywood, California).
His work has been featured on New York 1 News, Spike TV, as well as the television series, “Miami Ink”. His work has been explored by countless art and culture, and media publications, in the US and internationally, including the New York Post, New York Daily News, and the recently released, Lexikon Der Phantastischen Künstler “The international encyclopedia of fantastic, surrealistic, symbolist, & visionary artists”.
Castiglia lives and works in New York City, and is a member of The Society for Art of Imagination.
MEDIUM:
The entire collection of paintings by Vincent Castiglia is created exclusively in human blood (which anhydrates as “iron oxide”).
Blood is technically considered to be a tissue. It is made up of approximately 55% plasma, a yellowish clear fluid, which is 90% water by volume. Castiglia’s figures, their musculature and skin, are painted with what could be thought of as “liquid flesh”. Its tendency to quicken the subjects is likely inapproachable by any other medium—as it is actual tissue with which it is being rendered. In this way the subject’s realism is not merely an optical illusion due to it’s level of detail, but rather is an actual transference of flesh and blood to each work.
In the privacy of his studio, Castiglia practices a kind of modern-day phlebotomy, siphoning the life force which contains his own psychic energy, while giving it an outlet and form. In doing so, he dissolves the barrier between artist and art in the most literal and immediate sense.