Art Aviso

You are invited to attend the exhibition opening of Reflections of Apollo, a group exhibition by the Apollo Queer Art Collective on Wednesday 14 February 2024, from 17h30 to 18h00.

The Apollo Queer Art Collective is an international ensemble of queer visual artists working in varying mediums who have come together to create contemporary queer art inspired by the Greek god Apollo. Building on the rich cultural significance of Apollo and his association with homosexual aesthetics, they offer a modern perspective of Apollo’s story as an analogy for their own lived experiences.

Each artist chose a color of the LGBTQ+ flag to use not only as a prominent color to depict our artwork but also to draw inspiration from the associations of that color.
When the collective was founded in 2021, they chose the Olympian deity of Apollo from classical Greek and Roman mythology as he is considered the Patron of the arts, is associated with male idealized beauty standards, and has a history of intimate homosexual relationships. For this project, the collective was interested to see the different interpretations and visual expressions that would arise from a group of artists that reside in different countries if they all used Apollo as a protagonist.

The Apollo Queer Art Collective is Michael Biello, Franco Zucchella, Raúl Moya-Mula, Jose Gomez, Peter Garrard, Quinton Lehnert and Daniel Garbade.
If Homosexuality is more than just sex, then homosexual art is more than just images of sex. James M. Salslow, 1999

Please also join us for a walkabout with the artists on Saturday 17 February at 12h30.

The exhibition closes on Sunday 25 February.