Rock horror picture show: Marilyn Manson puts his predictably dark and disturbing artwork on display

Marilyn Manson  is a man of many talents - writer, singer, actor, photographer, composer and now... artist.The shock rocker showed his latest works at Vienna's Kunsthalle last night in a preview of an exhibition that opens tomorrow in the Austrian capital.
The watercolour exhibition, called Genealogies Of Pain, teams up Manson and U.S. film director David Lynch, who made Wild At Heart and Blue Velvet, and is also known for his love of the dark and disturbing.

Here's one I made earlier: Marilyn Manson   debuted his artwork at Vienna's Kunsthalle gallery last night

In the eye of the beholder: Manson's watercolours are predictably dark and disturbing

The two previously collaborated on Lynch's 1997 thriller Lost Highway, where Manson played a porn star.
This time around, Lynch has contributed several short films to Manson's exhibition, that are meant to provide a sort of aesthetic and historical context to the singer's paintings.

 

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Lynch has been a long-time fan of Manson's work. The controversial director wrote a foreword to Manson's 1999 biography, The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell - calling the rocker: 'An egg-born offspring of collective humanity.'

Established artist: Manson's paintings are predicted to sell for between €43,000 (£35,000) and €109,000 (£88,000) each

Back to the night job: Manson performing at a music festival in Romania. He has been called 'the most demented rock artist to hit the scene in the history of rock music'

In the exhibition's press release, the show's curators describe Manson as: 'The scandal figure and thorn in the flesh of America's moral custodians.'
That's about right - Manson has been slammed as 'the most demented rock artist to hit the scene in the history of rock music' and religious groups across America have long battled with Manson, calling for boycotts of his shows and urging parents to stop their children listening to his music.
Manson, whose real name is Brian Hugh Warner, has never formally studied art - he attended college to study journalism, but quit to pursue his career in music.
The exhibition's artworks span 15 years, from 1995 to 2010 - and are expected to reach between £35,000 and £88,000 each.
The artwork will be on display from June 30 to July 12.
Manson's band was formed in 1991. Their shock rock albums have contained songs entitled Cake And Sodomy, Smells Like Children and May Cause Discoloration Of The Urine Or Feces.