Artists Represented > Celso's Art

When speaking of art, this imagery assumes various forms, and the artist is the medium through which it takes shape. The artist forges his own path despite criticism, disapproval, or spiritual despair. Often a cursed figure, he upsets the status quo and challenges the order of things, damned for illuminating his tormented existence. Paradoxically, though his life suggests sacrifice, spiritual upheaval, and self-destruction, the artist seeks the exact opposite, though in the process his is the devil¹s hand. His life is an interminable journey and from the outset he intuits his own downfall.

The artist loves and kills the actual love of killing, sacrificing himself for himself every day. Each picture and every image represents a part of him cut out and hung up, at the mercy of the avid butcher who observes. The artist has to feel these intense parts of himself passionately, relating to them as if it were the last day of his life. In the work of Celso Junior this imagery is ever present, leading us to the other side of things where only shadows exist‹the bad ghost, loss of self in orgasm, and its parallels with death‹last rites to be compared only with the idea of complete perfection.

The soldier as motif is a consistent personal image in the work of Celso Junior, a clue to the painter's aesthetic. He kills with all the violence he can muster, and in so doing is ready to die himself. Only the soldier matches this ideal, his primary mission not to kill but to die, because in death all the secrets of the universe are revealed. The association between orgasm and death is the underpinning of Celso Junior's paintings.

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