Celso Junior - Death |
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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. This is a world of shadows that only light and color can overcome. The Devil is both the Angel of Light (who decides the colors of the universe) and the Lord of Darkness. Color is the cultural background of Celso Junior: they are inseparable. In his work the vibrancy of color reflects his aesthetic of the pleasure of pain.
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