In this series, Paloma Castello relocates classical gods to an unexpected territory: a tropical paradise where marble, fruit, birds, and intense color coexist without hierarchy. Apollo and Venus leave behind the solemnity of Olympus to inhabit a warm, luminous, everyday space. Castello contrasts classical iconography with Latin tropical elements—watermelons, macaws, palm trees—creating images that oscillate between the divine and the pop. This encounter generates a subtle tension: the eternal becomes familiar, and the domestic takes on a mythical aura.
With this series, Castello builds an intimate, tropical imaginary in which ancient myths are reinvented through color, memory, and her own emotional landscape of the Caribbean and South America. A space where the classical comes alive again.
Explore the captivating synergy of nature and imagination in a stunning painting available at The Art Design Project.
Watermelon Apollo, 2025. Paintings
Watermelon Apollo, 2025
From The Tropicalia Series
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 39.4 H x 27.6 W in
Unframed.
Paloma Castello was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1988. Castello has a Master's degree in Classical Studies from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, as well as a Master's degree in Contemporary Photography from IED Madrid in Spain. She studied Photography, Art and Architecture at Central Saint Martins, London, United Kingdom and before beginning her training as an artist in Colombia she attended the School of Arts and Crafts of Santo Domingo to study Silversmithing Techniques and the University of the Andes where she studied Wood Reproduction. Castello and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá, Colombia.
