PURGATORIUM
(2013-2014)
In his forty-fifth Year, David Van Gough embarked upon a series which would finally confront the daunting shadow cast by his most famous ancestor, and the inevitable connotations of that surname.
Adopting the characterization of Vincent Van Gogh as martyr, and recapitulating stanza’s from Shakespeare’s Tempest as themes of metaphorical exile – Purgatorium (Latin for the place in between) sets a chronological backdrop of imagined personal biography from birth to death, against an undercurrent of ancient sinister architecture, and the desolate stillness of the shipyards of his Liverpool childhood.
PURGATORIUM PRODUCTS
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This Thing of Darkness, I Know Mine – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
Poor Worm, Thou Art Infected – Original Sketch$250.00 -
Whats Past is Prologue – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
A Thousand Furlongs of Sea – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
Poor Worm – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
Some Wombs have Borne Bad Sons – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
Misery Acquaints Man with Strange Bedfellows – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
The Dark and Backwards Abysm of Time – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00 -
He That Dies Pays All Debts – 11 x 17″ Limited Edition Signed Print$50.00