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Event
Gates of Heck 2nd Show
SECOND RUN!!!!! Due to the overwhelming demand, Canvas Gallery has added a second show! For all of you who couldn't make it before we sold out! Now's your chance, get your tickets while they last.
SAN DIEGO, CA Perry Vasquez will present The Gates of Heck, an art performance of original compositions for electric guitar, at the Canvas Gallery, 1150 Seventh Avenue, San Diego, California, on Saturday March 15th at 8 p.m. The Gates of Heck also features video projection and animation by Aaron McFarland and Farrah Emami, with audio design by Blair Robert Nelson
The Gates of Heck will be performed Saturday March 15th , at 8 p.m. Admission is $7 online or $10 at the door.
ABOUT THE GATES OF HECK The idea for The Gates of Heck first began as a painting based on Rodin's epic bronze sculpture, Gates of Hell. As the work progressed, Vasquez was inspired to expand beyond the canvas and compose songs and music that would give wider expression to the themes, symbols and motifs of life, death, suffering and divine justice inherent in the subject matter.
"I've always been fascinated with our collective march toward death as well as our need to believe in some kind of afterlife," says Vasquez. "With The Gates of Heck I want to face humanity's finitude head on. I want to present Hell as the ultimate borderland."
The songs in The Gates of Heck are constructed from several references besides Rodin's work including Dante's Inferno, immigrant crossing narratives and Spiderman and other characters from the universe of comic book super heroes. "Some of the pieces take a comical or ironic approach while others are quite serious," says Vasquez.
The song My Afterlife was inspired by an experience Vasquez had one day while jogging through Hillcrest with his fiance. "We turned the corner just in time to see a man stumble out of a bar and into the street where he was struck by a car and killed instantly. The song tries to recreate his remorseful state of mind at finding himself so unexpectedly ushered into the underworld."
ABOUT THE ARTIST Perry Vasquez is an American-born visual artist and musician whose work covers a wide range of issues related to popular culture and border politics. His work tracks the cultural, phenomenal, linguistic and material boundaries that form consciousness and which define the complex nature of bi-national regionalism.
Vasquez's career in performance began in 2007 after he attended a performance art workshop with Guillermo Gomez-Pena. In 2009 he brought together local artists, actors, musicians and poets to form the Border Corps.
The Border Corps made their public debut with "Coatlicue, Mi Amor" a multimedia performance and art happening at Agitprop Space in February 2010. SInce that time Vasquez has performed at MCA San Diego, the San Diego Museum of Art and Self-Help Graphics in Los Angeles.
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LocationCanvas Gallery San Diego (View)
1150 Seventh Ave.
San Diego, CA 92101
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
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Contact
| Owner: dan allen |
| On BPT Since: Feb 03, 2014 |
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| Canvas Gallery San Diego |
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