Mounds versus Vegans: Trenton Doyle Hancock

In the saga of the absurd told through the art of Trenton Doyle Hancock, the battle is fought out between Mounds, giant creatures half plants and half animals and Vegans, who struggle to annihilate them, an allegory of the eternal conflict between good and evil.

In the saga of the absurd told through the art of Trenton Doyle Hancock, the battle is fought out between Mounds, giant creatures half plants and half animals and Vegans, who struggle to annihilate them, an allegory of the eternal conflict between good and evil.

The thirty-four year old Afro-American from Houston draws freely from abstract expressionism and his work seems to relive the irrational spirit of Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch. Narration is the tool he uses to articulate a language that blends comic-strip, animation, graphics and tradition and a careful look at his pictures reveals much of the surreal world in which the spectator is immersed in.

In 2007 he was awarded the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York and will be present until April 12 in Italy with a site-specific installation in the atmospheric setting of the ex Chiesa della Neve of the Galleria Marabini. Giulia Guzzini

Until 12.04.2008
Trenton Doyle Hancock. Reveal
Galleria Marabini
Vicolo della Neve 5
40123 Bologna
http://www.galleriamarabini.it/

Mounds versus Vegans: Trenton Doyle Hancock

In the saga of the absurd told through the art of Trenton Doyle Hancock, the battle is fought out between Mounds, giant creatures half plants and half animals and Vegans, who struggle to annihilate them, an allegory of the eternal conflict between good and evil.

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