Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. The artwork was made in 2016, the artist purposely stained, wetted and painted the paper in the same way he scratched and destroyed some areas of the paper as you can clearly see in the picture. It is a unique piece of art that almost looks like an old historical manuscript and in some ways it doesn't look like a completely new piece of art.
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio 2016 Drawing
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, 2016
Crayon Pastel on archival paper
Dimensions: 60 H x 38 W in.
Unframed
Celso Castro is a referent of Colombian Caribbean art who has been drawing men for more than four decades, studying at the Pratt Institute in New York. In his works, Castro exalts the male genitalia, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestioned patriarchal and phallocentric order. Most ment the ones he portrays are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos on corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on many occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography.
