8 artists to claim LGTBI+

RedCollectors joins the celebration of the International LGBTI+ Pride Day to commemorate, support rights, diversity and protest culture. Get to know the selection made by the experts of the online art consultancy. These are the 8 artists that we recommend buying and collecting: Cesc Abad, Darío Villalba, Cabello y Carceller, Guillermo Peñalver, Vicente Blanco, Manuel Antonio Domínguez, Pérez Villalta, Juan Carlos Martínez.

Selected works

The work of artists Helena Cabello (Paris, France, 1963) and Ana Carceller (Madrid, Spain, 1964) questions and reflects on gender identity. An identity that they consider a construction in conflict or in harmony with a social, cultural, political and economic environment. Their works review the patterns that are statically linked to both male and female roles. In this way, their pieces subvert images, codes of behavior and attitudes.

Cabello and Carceller's work has been part of individual and collective exhibitions, as well as important scholarships, awards and residencies.

The artist Cesc Abad (Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1973) is an artist trained in ceramics, photography and painting.

His work allows us to observe the landscape in a different way, both figuratively and conceptually. He is interested in provoking surprise, experimentation and the relationship between man and nature. His imagery is easily recognizable and expresses dystopia as a tool for social criticism.

His work belongs to the Collection Fundación MER, Madrid; Stefan Simchowintz, Los Angeles; Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona; Banca Mora, Andorra; Centro de Arte Mutuo, Barcelona; Encinar Collection, Madrid; Albert Madaula Collection, Barcelona; Antoni Morell Collection, Andorra; Carles Barrera Collection, Viella; Josep Soler Collection, Barcelona; Cernuda Collection, Barcelona, ​​among others.

Dario Villalba (San Sebastian, Spain, 1939-2018) is Graduated in Fine Arts and a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In 1958 he moved to Paris and painted for a few months in the studio of André Lhote. In 1962 he obtained a scholarship to study at Harvard University.

Since the mid-sixties he has addressed the problems of the latest artistic movements from a personal and original perspective in which he uses photography as painting.

In 1970 he received the first major recognition for his work, after his presentation at the XXXV Venice Biennale. In 1973 he received the International Painting Prize at the XII Säo Paulo Biennial. During the same decade he exhibited in major European museums: Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Stadt Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Sonja Henie-Niels Onstand Foundation, Hovikooden, Norway. In 1983 he received the National Painting Prize in Spain.

Guillermo Peñalver (Tarragona, Spain, 1982) graduated in 2009 in Fine Arts from the UCM-CES Felipe II in Aranjuez, specializing in plastic arts.

The artist creates fragmented compositions from drawing and collage. He uses cardboard, pencils and scissors to create an irrational and ironic universe where poetic narration, ornate landscape and eroticism are present.

His work has been present at fairs such as SWAB Barcelona, ​​selected by Óscar Alonso Molina, and at Open Studio in 2013. Since 2016 he is represented by the Gema Llamazares Gallery, being present at the editions of JUSTMAD and Marbella Art Fair 2015 and 2016, that same year, he participated in the drawing exhibition curated by Mónica Álvarez Careaga at the Today Museum in Beijing and in Literary Drawings in the Cuarto Real in Granada curated by Concha Hermano. In 2017 he participated in Drawing Room and Estampa.

Guillermo Pérez Villalta (Tarifa, Spain, 1948) is one of the most representative Spanish artists of postmodernism in Spain. He is part of the new Madrid figuration.

In contrast to the values ​​of a certain abstract modernity, his painting is entirely narrative in nature. In the 1970s, his colourful 'mannerist' style with deformed figures stood out. In the mid-1980s, his colours became warm and dirty, with a looser technique.

The artist's work can be found in important collections such as: Friends of Contemporary Art, Madrid; ARTIUM Centro - Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria; Seville City Council; Bank of Spain, Madrid; CAC Málaga Contemporary Art Center, Malaga; CAAC - Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, Seville; CAAM - Atlantic Center for Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Caja San Fernando, Seville; Fundesco Collection, Madrid; Banco Zaragozano Collection; Col.lecció Testimoni de La Caixa, Barcelona; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; Provincial Council, Granada; Banco Exterior Foundation, Madrid; Josep Suñol Foundation, Barcelona; Juan March Foundation, Madrid; United States Institute, Tangier; Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville; Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao; ICO Collections Museum, Madrid; Museum of the Provincial Council of Alava, Vitoria; Municipal Museum, Madrid; Marugame Hirai Museum of Contemporary Spanish Art, Japan; Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca; MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo del Revellín, Ceuta; San Telmo Palace, Seville; Patio Herreriano - Museum of Contemporary Spanish Art, Valladolid; Real Maestranza de Ronda; Real Maestranza de Sevilla; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Juan Carlos Martínez (Badajoz, Spain, 1978) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville and an International Master's degree in Photography from the EFTI school in Madrid. Juan Carlos Martínez's photographs construct a space where the gaze works in a unique way. Subjected to a model of furtive capture, and at times directly voyeuristic, their nature is far from an improvised snapshot. In this sense, the artist plays with those diffuse limits of what is representable and with the even more controversial issue of the confines of one's own gaze in relation to the privacy of others.

Juan Carlos Martínez has received numerous grants and awards, including the First Prize ABC Art Prize in its IX edition and the Residence of the College of Spain in Paris and the Academy of Rome. His work has been exhibited in spaces such as the Center of Art and Nature (CDAN) in Huesca; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; ABC Museum of Drawing, Madrid; Museum of America, Madrid; Center of the Image, Mexico City, among others.

Manuel Antonio Domínguez (Huelva, Spain, 1976) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and an Official Master's Degree in Artistic Production. He has been part of groups such as Sala la Perrera and Niños prodigio and currently works with the Ángeles Baños Gallery in Badajoz.

In his work he presents a personal, intimate and everyday universe, full of details that make the contemplation of his pieces inexhaustible. He creates a universe around the cultural construction of masculinity, with themes of sexual and gender identity.

The artist's work can be found in collections such as: Department of Public Works and Transport of the Andalusian Government, Provincial Council of Huelva, DKV Collection, El Brocense Collection, Provincial Council of Cáceres, Guasch Coranty Foundation, IAJ Collection. Andalusian Youth Institute. Andalusian Government, KELLS Collection Spain, 21c Musem. USA, Hoffmann-La Roche Collection, Switzerland.

Vicente Blanco (A Coruña, Spain, 1974) is an internationally renowned artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Fine Arts, specialising in Sculpture, from the University of Vigo (1997) and a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Granada (2012).

In recent years, Vicente Blanco's work has reflected on identity, traditions, architecture, landscape and language that are fading away, absorbed by new economic models. Blanco uses drawing as a tool to reveal power relations and construct other narratives.

His work is part of public and private collections such as CGAC (Galician Centre for Contemporary Art), MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León), Caja Madrid, Caja Extremadura, Coca-Cola Foundation, Caixa Galicia, Caixa Nova, INJUVE (Youth Institute), Patio Herreriano, DA2, Endesa, MACUF (Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art in A Coruña), María José Jove Foundation, UNED, Community of Madrid, Pamplona City Council, A Coruña Provincial Council and DKV, among others.

Pepe Carretero (Tomelloso, Spain, 1962) defends in his themes the life he knows and recreates it outside of fashions and the ups and downs of the cultural world. His work, very recognizable within the amalgam of artistic movements, is closely related to the “poetry of experience”. His works can be found in different museums such as the Reina Sofia in Madrid and in private collections such as the Bank of Spain, the Abello collection, etc.