National Art Gallery presented Kirtology exhibition

Published at: 12/05/2025 09:32 AM

In the Diversity Space of the National Art Gallery (GAN), the exhibition “Kuirtology” by the artist Aldrin Bacadare opened, as part of the celebration of the National Day of the Plastic Artist.

The opening of Bacadare's first solo exhibition was attended by several gallery authorities, including the general director, Clemente Martínez; the Executive Director, Yusmari Gutiérrez; and the director of Museum Processes, María Castellano.

Through seven impressive works, two ceramics, four paintings and a plastic assemblage, Bacadare establishes a dialogue between the realities of diverse sex-gender communities (queer, trans and crip) and diverse mythological cultures.

The young artist, a native of Bolívar and raised in Monagas, explained that “Kirtology” is “the combination of facts and things that serve to compare contemporary identity and corporeal realities and queer, trans and crip reality in Venezuela and in the world, with different mythologies. In other words, stories about minotaurs, mermaids, cyclops that are different corporalities, but that start from the anthropomorphic, that is, from the human, and that speak, as in reality, of stories where there is a happy ending and there is no happy ending, there are moments of glory, abuse, magic, wisdom, but there is also a lot of violence”.

For his part, the specialist researcher at the GAN and curator of the exhibition, Kelvin Arévalo, highlighted that “Kirtology” marks the fifth edition of the Diversity Space, an initiative that seeks to study large areas within the visual arts.

The National Art Gallery team extended the invitation to explore Aldrin Bacadare's proposal, a profound reflection on identity and diversity in the context of contemporary Venezuelan art. The exhibition will remain open to the general public for two months.

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