Latest Exhibitions
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Reflections of Apollo
KZNSA Gallery, Durban,South Africa
14.2. - 25.2.2024
The Apollo Queer Art Collective is an international ensemble of queer visual artists working in varying mediums who have come together to create contemporary art inspired by the Greek god Apollo. Building on the rich cultural significance of Apollo and his association with homosexual aesthetics, they offer a modern perspective of Apollo's story as an analogy for their own lived experiences. Each artist chose a colour of the LGBTQ+ flag to use not only as a prominent colour to depict our artwork but also to draw inspiration from the associations of that colour.
When the collective was founded in 2021, they chose the Olympian deity of Apollo from classical Greek and Roman mythology as he is considered the Patron of the arts, is associated with male idealized beauty standards, and has a history of intimate homosexual relationships. For this project, the collective was interested to see the different interpretations and visual expressions that would arise from a group of artists that reside in different countries if they all used Apollo as a protagonist. The Apollo Queer Art Collective is Michael Biello, Franco Zucchella, Raúl Moya-Mula, Jose Gomez, Peter Garrard, Quinton Lehnert and Daniel Garbade.
Loudest Whispers
The Arts Project,London
9.2. - 10.5.2024
Loudest Whispers is an art exhibition linked to the theme of the nationwide 2024 LGBT History Month.
The concept of Reflexions on Apollo, within the Loudest Whispers exhibition, is based on the cultural importance of the Greek god Apollo and his association with homosexual aesthetics, for which Apollo Queer Art Collective proposes a contemporary perspective on the story of Apollo. Each artist participating in the show chose a color from the community flag to use not only as a featured color to represent their work but also as a source of inspiration.
Belenartspace
Madrid
8.11. - 18.12.2022
Daniel Garbade
Franco Zucchella
Michael Biello
Peter Garrard
Quinton Lehnert
Raul Moya Mula
My father is a dirty slutty transcendental girlie
Espacio Caramujo,Lisbon,
Portugal
23.9. - 14.8.2022
This aesthetic project includes a collective of artists of different nationalities,ages and paths that seek through the subversion mobile to include a new object. Understand if by new object something that speaks to us of social, aesthetic, identity,gender to achieve the inclusion of excluded objectives.It is intended through queer, feminist, anti-colonialist or just subversive art create questions and not just information or data.Through the analysis of the archeologies of power that dictate the rules of aesthetic patriarchy.The art of the aforementioned groups seeks a new ideal of beauty or anti-art.It is in this dichotomy of spaces that the multiple dialogues and possibilities are articulated.
The title of the exhibition explicitly alludes to the father figure and his transmutation from a insult normally attributed to women as is the slut or girlie that this time is directed towards the father figure. The word transcendental alludes precisely to this irony and dichotomy between genders.
In summary, this project or aesthetic attempt only tries to question it and the attempt or the possibility of including the so-called subversive aesthetic exclusions.
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