yamila velazquez - Golden Scars

About the artwork:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 works worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. All relevant information about the artwork, its edition number, and the artist’s signature are included on the reverse.
Overall dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality 100% cotton professional canvas, highly resistant to handling and external factors, by Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with excellent visual quality.
Technique: Giclée printing, recognized for its precision and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be expressly requested at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools. She currently lives and works in the city of Alicante, Spain. As the owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business acumen with a deep artistic sensibility.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between women and their surroundings. Her works subtly and powerfully explore themes such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always set within immersive, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez skillfully fuses classical influences with a modern visual language, creating versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The painterly texture of her images, her masterful use of color, and their emotionally balanced composition establish her work as a contemporary artistic vision of great aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The artwork will be carefully packed by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, with internal bubble-wrap protection to ensure it remains intact during transport. Shipments are handled by reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most suitable option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, although this may vary depending on the destination country.

With La Elegancia Rota, Yamila Velázquez introduces a new dimension to her “Cicatrices Doradas” series, in which the male body is no longer depicted as merely nude or heroic, but dressed, controlled, almost confined by the structure of the suit. And yet this body is no less vulnerable: beneath its impeccable appearance, it remains porcelain, still broken, still revealing its story.

This work is perhaps one of the most conceptual in the series, as it transposes the poetics of kintsugi into the symbolic realm of public image, the masculine role, and the social mask.

The man depicted here wears a flawless suit, decorated like the rest of the series with blue flowers in an oriental style, on a smooth, white, glossy surface. The exquisite detail of the design does not conceal that this “clothing” is made of the same material as his body: porcelain. And it is cracked, restored, scarred with gold.

What is fractured is not just the skin: it is the uniform of masculinity. It is the role. It is the expectation. The man does not hide beneath his suit: he wears it as part of his broken and reconstructed identity.

His distant, almost melancholic gaze and the delicate gesture of his hands lend the work an elegant emotional quality, reminiscent of Renaissance portraits or Symbolist painting. This figure is not decorative: he is a thinker, a reflective being, someone who has endured loss without ceasing to hold his form.

The work displays impressive technical virtuosity. The modeling of the hands and face, the ceramic texture, the fine crazing of the cracks, and the balance of the floral motifs come together in a perfectly composed image.

The palette is restrained and noble: porcelain white, floral blue, warm gold. The dark background heightens the aura of introspection emanating from the figure. This is not a work to glance at in passing: it demands silence, it demands contemplation.

The message here is more subtle, but equally powerful. The suit represents what is expected of a man: composure, success, rationality, perfection. Velázquez shows us that even when this structure holds, the being within is broken. And that is not weakness, but truth.

The gold running through the cracks represents acceptance and transformation; it shows that even the most rigid things can change. The crown of blue flowers, understated yet significant, evokes a connection with the inner self, with emotion, and with aesthetics as a path to healing.

La Elegancia Rota could hang in a conceptual art gallery exploring masculinity, alongside works by Grayson Perry, Kehinde Wiley, or even Francis Bacon, for its ability to reveal the tension between form and substance.

It belongs to contemporary movements that reconsider the aesthetics of the “modern man,” stripping away inert armor and restoring a profound, sensitive, and aesthetically reconstructed humanity.