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Javier Díaz-Guardiola is a journalist, critic and exhibition curator. He is currently coordinator of the art, architecture and design section of ABC Cultural, editor-in-chief of ABC de ARCO and author of the contemporary art blog “Siete de Un Golpe”.

Hair and Carceller

What a body can do (Perla,) #2 , 2020, Photography, 50 x 60 cm, Editions: 6

They have been mapping dissident sexual and gender identities since the 1990s, in a work that, in some cases, combines the artistic with the anthropological. They have paved the way for many artists in our country, where there was no defined genealogy of this type.

Carlos Aires

Abuses of power, the power of the media, clichés, violence, popular culture... Nothing escapes the radar of this artist, who revives a certain Andalusian baroque style and combines it with a queer gaze that invites reflection.

Christopher Tabares

Sharp criticism is not at odds with humour. Tabares is unique in bringing back the most absurd side of our spectacle society in the form of painting. His latest works focus on Mother Russia, the scourge of LGBT rights.

Dario Villalba

He was a pioneer in the use of photography as a pictorial medium, in Spain and in Europe. In his quest, he turned individuals who had been ostracized by society into objects of desire. His vision remains relevant.

Guillermo Peñalver

He is a drawing wizard, mixing graphite with cut paper, creating collages with different layers, also with meaning. With them he recounts his own life in the form of a small diary that transcends through empathy.

Guillermo Perez Villalta

Always guided by an ideal of beauty, the multidisciplinary work of this Andalusian artist is guided by proportion, order and careful compositions. In them, man - male, masculine - is established as the centre, in a kind of new humanism of contemporary times.

Jean Carlos Port

It is difficult to find figurative painting in which the nude is not anchored to academic models. Jean Carlos Puerto achieves this and also manages to make the eroticism surrounding the male body sublimated.

Jose Antonio Vallejo

Childhood as a refuge, but also as a stage where nightmares creep in. Vallejo's work deromanticizes these spaces but also sublimates them, showing that it is in them that our personality takes its first steps.

Joao Gabriel

The scenes that this young Portuguese painter uses are stills from gay pornographic films. Even so, the result is far from disturbing, turning his scenes into pictorial environments that delight the viewer.

Juan Hidalgo

Miguel Benlloch

He is another of the seminal figures of Spanish queer art from decades ago, which museums and galleries are now re-emphasizing. Benlloch moved well in the stormy waters of performance and political activism. A reference.

Toni Catany

He sought beauty in transience, including that of the young male body. In this sense, he imposed a brave model for his time that is now repeated ad nauseam by many contemporary photographers.