Celso José Castro Daza Photography
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
Untitled From the series Buscando Papá. Nude 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 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. 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 Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Guerreros Giovanni. 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Nazareno #2. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Sheet size: 40 in. H x 27.5 in. W
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Untitled. From The series Buscando Papá. 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 Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Milena Rosado Junio. From the series Dysfunctional Family. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the series Dysfunctional Family
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these unique photographic works by the ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Francisco Castilla, Lotero. From the Series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Francisco Castilla, Lotero by Celso José Castro Daza
From the Series Guerreros.
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
1996
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
Th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
Fabian Diptych. From The Series Precolombian Fantasy, Photomontage on archival
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fabian (Diptych) by Celso José Castro Daza
From The Series Precolombian Fantasy
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Overall Sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 39 in. W
Individual Sh...
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1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Platanos Asados 1. From the series Frutas. Still life Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Frutas
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bodegon Mauricio Feb 1, Diptych. 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
Overall size: Sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 39 in. W
Individual size: Sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Faiber Oct. From the series Guerreros. Photo Collage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Faiber Oct 1999 by Celso Castro-Daza
Photography photo collage intervened by the artist with bland ink mounted on archival paper.
Sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
One of...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Andrés. From the Series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Andrés, 1999 by Celso José Castro Daza
From the Series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these uniqu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Andrés Diptych. From the Series Guerreros. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Andrés Diptych, 1999 by Celso José Castro Daza
From the Series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Overall size: Sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 39 in. W
Individual size:...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Color
Nazareno #6. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage on archival paper
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Sheet size: 40 in. H x 27.5 in. W
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Celso José Castro Daza Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Untitled VIII. From The series Buscando Mamá. Photomontage on archival paper
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival 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 Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
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