The artwork builds on a profound visual narrative exploring the permanent human duality between goodness and evil, innocence and sin. Relying on historical religious archetypes of angels and devils that have ruled humanity for generations, the proposal translates the creator's gaze after more than 30 years dedicated to elite portraiture, managing to know, experience, and interpret many of the hidden facets of human feeling. The vertical layout anchors a powerful, moody perspective structured around a dramatic chiaroscuro studio setup, balancing a single full-frontal male nude standing in a quiet, statuesque pose against a dynamic, motion-blurred ghostly figure entering the frame from the left edge over a textured dark studio background field.
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents evil par excellence, and at all times we have used between the duality of what's good and bad. Goodness, evil, naivety, and sin, a diatribe that has ruled humanity for as long as we can think back. This sample, beyond being a judgment, is the gaze of a creator who, after more than 30 years dedicated to portraiture, has managed to know, experience, and interpret many of the facets of the HUMAN feeling.
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Conceptual Nude Photography - Untitled X, 2010. By Mauricio Velez
Untitled X, Half Angels Half Demons, 2010
From the series Half Angels Half Demons
Archival Pigment Print
Color photography
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Born and based in Colombia, Mauricio Vélez has been an active photographer for over 30 years. A graduate of the European Institute of Design in Italy, Vélez has developed an extensive body of work across Latin America, the United States, and Spain. His photographs are found in highly prestigious collections at national and international level.
