Art Madrid'23 – Last Ouka Leele´s special edition litographies

 

To celebrate our 10th aniversary, Art Madrid asked the artista Ouka Leele in order to design a special edition litography to conmemorate the event. A limited edition that you still can have and for a lower price!!

The poster, printed on Fedrigoni Old Mill paper of 100 gr. with measures of 83x51'5 cm, has one of the latest Ouka Leele's painted photos and the 10th anniversary commemorative text. The artist herself signed some copies to make the piece a more special memory if possible. The price of lithographic posters is 15 €.
 
The lithography, with an edition of 125 numbered copies, has 100 x 64.5 cm and it is printed on Fedrigoni Old Mill paper 250 gr. The piece, certified, had a special price during the fair, 300 €, price that we keep a few months !!! (... It would cost € 500 in the regular market). Do not miss the opportunity to bring you a bit of these decade of art.

 


OUKA LEELE

Stage name of Barbara Allende Gil de Biedma (Madrid, 1957), artist, painter, poet and Spanish photographer.
 
It was one of the main names of the Madrid scene - La Movida - of the early 1980s, when she shared days and nights with Javier Mariscal, Ceesepe, Alberto García-Alix or Pedro Almodovar.
 
Self-taught, her photographs stand features black and white hand painted with watercolor. Ouka Leele mixes the Spanish traditions with the great colorful typical of this artist, honored with the National Photography Prize in 2005.
 
His stage name comes from a work of the painter "El Hortelano", a map of stars completely invented by him, in which appeared a star called "OUKA LEELE ".
 

The artist has always understood photography as "visual poetry, a way of speaking without words". And speaking as loud, he stopped traffic in the Plaza de la Cibeles, in Madrid, in order to make the renowned photography Rappelle-toi Barbara, representing the myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes and today already an icon of the city .

 

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.