Celso José Castro Daza Art
Colombian, b. 1953
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises to the voyeuristic viewer. They look back at us with a shameless stare. They play the game that moves between vanity and seduction.
Celso Castro was born in Valledupar, Colombia. He has a BFA from the Pratt Institute and has exhibited extensively in Latin America and the U.S.
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Artist: Celso José Castro Daza
Vendedores de Pajaros. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Diptych: Ruben. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Paper
Confrontacion de Ideales. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper
Diptych: Tomas and Untitled 1. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
Diptych: Roli. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Paper
Bodyscape, June 24th and 25th Diptych. Watercolor and ink on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Boys, Boys Pride! Watercolor and ink on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Diptych Jhonny. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
Diptych: Seductor. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Diptych: Untitled II and III. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Paper
Warrior. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
P.A. Jhonny El Jaguey. From The series Guerreros. Nude. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros
Unique Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from the photographs he took with his camera larger versions of those pieces, but having only registered his models with a single photograph it was impossible to achieve, given this need he adopts the language of fractionation completing the message he wants to transmit through his work.
Castro perfected his technique throughout the years, now on he takes numbers of photographs of his subject, which are then assembled to conform a unique photo collage...
Category
1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Art
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
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