Celso José Castro Daza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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.
(Biography provided by The Art Design Project)
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Artist: Celso José Castro Daza
Pensando en ti, Marzo 13, Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pensando en ti, Marzo 13, 2014 by Celso Castro
Watercolor on archival paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each ca...
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1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Watercolor
Recordando el gran artista Alberto Riano "Mangos" Marzo, Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Recordando el gran artista Alberto Riano Mangos Marzo, 2014 by Celso Castro
Black paint, and pastel on archival paper
Image size: 39.2 H in. x 28 in. W
Unframed
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1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Acrylic
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