Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
The Old man from the last expo, 1996-2016
The Old Man from the last Expo, 1996
Crayon pencil on archival paper
Paper size: 59 H x 43 W in.
Image size: 54 H x 40 W in.
On the back of the painting:
Jairo, 2016
Watercolor and ink on archival paper
Image size: 54 H x 40 W in.
Unique
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.
