Victor Castillo

The Winner Takes It All. acrylic on canvas. 90 x 90 cm

Thirty Animals. acrylic on canvas. 190 x 195 cm

We Are The Champions. acrylic on canvas. 130 x 190 cm

Un tornado arrazo mi ciudad y mi jardin primtivo. acrylic on canvas. 145 x 145 cm


Sin in my heart. acrylic on canvas. 145 x 145 cm

Sausage-nosed children and pensive barnyard animals, together at last. Sounds creepy? That’s kind of the point. Chilean born artist VICTOR CASTILLO creates dark pop canvas in which drawing reference to comic and satire, as well as to GOYA and VELASQUEZ.

His oil paintings are so well-executed and brightly colored that at first sight we don’t noticed the dark situations of his “tableaus” where toys are weapons and the fun is frightening if not brutally violent.

The idea is to seduce the viewer in and then provoke varied thoughts beyond the initial reaction. There is a very dark and seriocomic vision of the world behind my work.”

CASTILLO was raised in Santiago de Chile, a conflictive political and social environment, being the country under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. If historically Chile had been strongly influenced by the post-colonial Spain, during this period politics, economy and culture were heavily influenced by Washington, the strength of the dollar and Hollywood. Victor developed since then an ambiguous relationship with the US, being a country that exerted a colonial-style influence but also brought a culture which fast became his main source of inspiration, far from anything else he had known before. He moved to Barcelona (Spain) in 2004 and, since his first show in IguapopGallery that same year, his popularity has only increased.




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