AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY CELSO CASTRO
Everyday Life in The Valley
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
I am showering Series
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.
Searching a Mother Series
Searching a Father Series
Males, Inheritance and Origin Series
The Identity Series
The Sellers Series
CELSO CASTRO
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Celso Castro is a reference in Colombian Caribbean art who has drawn males for more than four decades.
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.