Pride Month: 10 Artists Celebrating Diversity and Love with Art

Art is a reflection of human diversity and, on the occasion of Pride Month, we at RedCollectors want to highlight 10 artists who have enriched the art world with their committed pursuit of inclusivity and love. 

Challenging norms, celebrating diversity and advocating for the rights of the LGTBIQ+ community, through his works his works invite us to reflect on the richness of the human experience and the importance of acceptance.

Francesco Vezzoli

Francesco Vezzoli (Italy, 1971) uses ancient models to create contradictions with common culture and reflect on the power of contemporary popular culture and sexuality. By faithfully emulating formats from various media, such as cinema and advertising, he addresses current concerns about the fundamental ambiguity of truth, the seductive power of language and the instability of the human person.

Guillermo Pérez Villalta

Guillermo Pérez Villalta (Spain, 1948) is a Spanish artist recognized for his skill in painting, sculpture and architecture, and is considered one of the most influential artists on the Spanish art scene since the 1970s. His artistic style combines elements of classical culture with popular culture and the most current issues of contemporary society.

Pilar Aymerich

Pilar Aymerich (Spain, 1943) is a Spanish photographer whose work is mainly known for her photographic documentation of citizen protests during the Transition and the Catalan Women's Days. photographic documentation of citizen protests during the time of the Transition and the Catalan Women's Days. Pilar's gaze penetrates in a natural but rigorous way when taking portraits, both of people in the street at a protest and of those cultural personalities of the moment who pose for her.

Cabello and Carceller are a pair of contemporary artists formed by Helena Cabello (Paris, 1963) and Ana Carceller (Madrid, 1964). In their work they explore issues of gender, identity, sexuality, power and politics. Although imbued with contemporary theory, mainly but not exclusively feminist and queer theory, Cabello and Carceller retain an independent political stance from which they analyze the sexual politics of space and the socially imposed mechanisms of representation that permeate cultural spheres.

Jose Antonio Vallejo

The multidisciplinary work of José Antonio Vallejo (Spain, 1984) focuses on the construction of one's own identity through play and toys, using his experience of love as a base. His work seeks to show the silent catastrophes of ordinary people, and uses a variety of artistic media, including drawings, objects, videos, performances and installations.

Fabrizio Corneli

Fabrizio Corneli (Italy, 1958) is an artist recognized for his use of expressive language with which he investigates the interplay between light and shadow. Through surprising effects of refraction, decomposition and anamorphosis, he immerses the viewer in a purely perceptive experience. His works emerge as unpredictable revelations inspired by classical statues or elements of nature in an empirical way and he works with all subjects .

Martin Parr

Anne-Lise Coste

Anne-Lise Coste (France, 1973) is a Swiss artist born in Marseille, France. She often uses writing as an integral part of her artistic practice, incorporating poetic and political texts in her works. She has also explored themes such as memory, feminism and cultural criticism in her work. Considered by the artist to represent childhood freedom, but also resistance, this combination casts a glance at both the violence of our society and the beauty of the world.

Francisco Rodríguez Pino

Niño, 2023, pintura, 35 x 45 cm

 

Francisco Rodríguez Pino (Chile, 1989) is a Chilean artist, for him, painting is not only a way of seeing or thinking, but, even more radical, a way of being seen thinking and seeing out loud. His works consist of firmly delineated figures that populate dark or gray-toned landscapes: men in shadows, packs of dogs with red eyes, and crows that occupy the central space of a canvas.