<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->This compelling contemporary performance photography diptych, stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated experimental dance and body expression series by artist Mauricio Vélez. Relying on high-contrast studio shading, raw physical action, and a dramatic conceptual staging to map out a timeless artistic narrative, the artwork masterfully tracks a complex rhythm of human anatomy flexibility and spatial gravity. Sourced from intense physical movement captured directly on archival sheets, the horizontal installation layout anchors a powerful perspective across two synchronized sheets, using contrasting minimal white background fields and distressed textures to turn an innovative choreography project into an elegant topographic scenery of pure visual balance and quiet luxury.
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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Contemporary Performance Photography - Half Angels Half Demons 23 and 22, 2004
Half Angels Half Demons #23 and #22 (Diptych), 2004
From the series Half Angels Half Demons
Archival Pigment Print
Limited Edition.
Color Photography
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.
