Art Madrid'23 – Taller del Prado gallery in Art Madrid\'15

Taller del Prado is a publisher of contemporary graphic art, it works in publishing projects by artists with a proven track record in the art world, creators of prestige that add value to the development of contemporary art in our country . Taller del Prado has its own printing workshop and these editions are available to private collectors, art dealers, art galleries or specialized companies.

The director, Francisco Molina Montero, makes a proposal with essential names of art in our country: Rafael Canogar, Alberto Corazón, Brinkmann, Feito, Miró, Picasso, Tapies, Bellver, ...

 
Alberto Corazón  (Madrid, 1942). It is one of the Spanish designers with more extensive international presence. Awarded by the Arts Director Club of New York, the British Design and the Design Council International,  Corazón develops their professional work both in the area of graphic design as in industrial design. Awarded in 1989 with the National Design Award, the jury recorded that was accorded "in recognition of the strength, talent and commitment of a star of Spanish design."
 
It is the only European designer who has received the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the most important international award in the field of visual communication, which is awarded every three years and so far only received five great teachers.
 
He was president and founder of the Spanish Association of Professional Designers and part, at present, the Advisory Committee of the European Parliament for the regularization of Graphic Communication.
Enrique Brinkmann. (Málaga, 1938). Brinkmann was born in the same building where Pablo Picasso was born. He began studying industrial expert who leaves quickly to devote himself to painting on his own.
 
In 1957 he held his first exhibition at Malaga. Picasso is part of the group and collaborates with the MAM (Artistic Movement of the Mediterranean). In 1961The march to Germany where he worked in a factory and in his painting, haunting Europe at that time, learn engraving and working with the Fluxus group illustrating sheet music for Cornelius Cardew. Subsequently lives a year in Rome.
 
In 1967 he returned to Spain and settled in Málaga, mainly developing his work in painting, printmaking and drawing. Later, he moved to Madrid, alternating his work between Málaga and the capital of Spain. Da courses recorded in Fuendetodos and the Mint of Madrid.

 

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.