Executed with pastel, carbon pencil, and ink on premium cotton paper, this unique large-scale masterpiece puts into tension the limits imposed by the traditional gender system and phallocentric order. The visual layout anchors a powerful vertical portrait tracking a single frontal naked male figure from the Colombian Caribbean coast, whose heavy muscular physique and exposed lines are isolated against a solid, sun-drenched yellow background to challenge everyday social realities.
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Male Nude Drawing - Yellow Nudes, 1996. By Celso Castro
Yellow Nudes, 1996
Patel, carbon pencil, ink on cotton paper.
Dimensions:
Image size: 52.5 H x 37.8 W in.
Mounted on acid-free board: 54.8 H x 40 W in.
Mounted on boar
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.
