Executed as a signed limited edition archival pigment print directly on premium paper, the artwork builds on a profound visual narrative exploring the permanent human duality between goodness and evil, purity and sin. Relying on historical religious archetypes that have ruled humanity for generations, the proposal translates the creator's gaze after more than 30 years dedicated to elite portraiture, managing to interpret the complex and delicate facets of human feeling and the genesis of life. Balancing a single full-frontal female nude standing with her head tilted back in a theatrical pose, customized across her abdomen with a hyper-realistic body painting that reveals a fetus in gestation inside the womb over a dark, textured 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 - Half Angels Half Demons 47, 2010 by Mauricio Velez
Half Angels Half Demons #47, 2010
From the Series Half Angels Half Demons
Color Photography
Archival Pigment Print
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.
















