Exhibition Catalog L’Art I Café · Sitges 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 Por Rubén Antón

POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Exposició de Rubén Antón. Retrats per a un segle XXI dissident. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES PRORROGADA FINS AL 30 SET 2021 EXHIBITION CATALOG L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN THE BEST OF BEING NOBODY, IS THAT YOU CAN BE ANYTHING. For the first time in Sitges, after 3 months exhibited in Barcelona, you are able to enjoy this art exhibition by Rubén Antón that includes the complete collection of the 12 works printed on canvas, which add up a total of 25 vector portraits belonging to the launch of the third calendar of Drag is Burning 2021 and an extra canvas that includes his successful work SI MAIRENA LEVANTA- SE LA CABEZA with the image of a 50 pesetas coin from 1957, legal tender belonging to the Fransquista regime, with the portrait of the transvestite dictator Franco with the iconic Carmen de Mairena’s outfit, LGTBIQ+ icon of Barcelona’s Raval district. Exhibition from April 1st to September 30th 2021 at the gallery L’ART I CAFÉ (Carrer Joan Tarrida 10-12 - Sitges) With this, the author proposes to give space to reflection on NEOTRAVESTISMO as a result of history and how some referents, sometimes so unjustly invisible to the great social mass, can liberate and empower the dissident artistic community. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Rubén Antón Palma de Mallorca,1984 An artist raised in Madrid and, as he himself says, “spoi- led” in the Raval of Barcelona. His vector portraits were exhibited for the first time in 2018 under the framework of his DRAG IS BURNING project, which closed 2019 with 6 LGTBIQ collective art exhibitions in collaboration with other artists. His personal project recovers the transvestite history of transformism and Barcelona drag from the s. XIX with Leopoldo Frégoli, Edmont de Bries and Ernesto Foliers, passing through Madame Arthur, Paco España, Violeta la Burra and Carmen de Mairena up to the present day, thus offering a pioneering journey on the subject. He is currently working on different monographic art projects on the lives of transsexual and transformist vede- ttes from the rogue Barcelona of the Spanish transition and has a podcast channel with interviews with relevant characters from the Spanish and Barcelona queer scene that is currently in its third season and in 2020 it has been heard in 28 countries. www.dragisburning.com https://instagram.com/ruben_anton https://instagram.com/dragisburning L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Photography Gege Mos for The Pink Monkey PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE TRANSFORMISMO, DRAGQUEENISMO Y NEOTRAVESTISMO This exhibition is a journey as real as it is ephemeral. A personal journey that connects me with the past. A past that is not told, a past that if it is not told is forgotten. This exhibition talks about the struggle and struggle against oblivion. The oblivion of those who have not had a voice. A voice that lasts over time thanks to those who bothered to record it. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN This exhibition is a record. My record. A personal record that only intends to share what other people have taught me. People, first of all, who make me feel that what they did was incredible. People who inspire me. People who would be delighted to know that a queer graphic designer, in the midst of a global pandemic, applauds her work even decades after her fight and in some ca- ses decades after her death. This exhibition is an excuse to delve into our history as transvestites, dykes and queers. A place where I can meet characters who have taught me a lot from yester- day and I sincerely hope that they also make you think and reflect on the world we want for today, and especia- lly for tomorrow. I cannot change the Iberian transvestite past for a better one, but I can celebrate it with pride. This is my main objective with this exhibition. I want invite you to celebrate with me the freedom that NEOTRAVESTISM offers us, here and now. Thanks! Ruben Anton L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Si Mairena levan- tase la cabeza... Vector design printed on canvas 100x100cm · Price 575€ + tax L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Ene- Vector design printed on canvas 100x100cm · Price 575€ + tax roL’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Leopoldo Fregoli This singular Italian artist is cre- world with some shows in which dited with the creation of scenic Fregoli was the only protagonist on transformism. Heterosexual and stage. married with children, he appea- red on stage imitating “more than Their speed when changing costu- a hundred characters” according mes continues to appear in the dic- to the media of the time, both male tionary when we look up the word and female. ‘transformista’ and also in 1989 the psychologist Henry Ey in his She passed through Barcelona for ‘Manuel de Psychiatrie’ gave the the first time in 1890 and his period name to the Fregoli Syndrome, of a of activity was from the end of the paranoid nature, which consists in 19th century until the second repu- believing that all people are actua- blic (1930s), traveling around the lly the same person. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Edmond de Bries She became known for being the ge with his sister Magdalena de dressmaker of the best cupletists Bries who was a dancer. of the early 20th century and later began his career as a star imper- It is worth mentioning that, in ad- sonator in 1912. dition to the imitations, she incor- porated cuples of the maestro Font Originally from Cartagena, this ar- and successful composers of the tist had an insatiable desire to wear time. The writer Juan Carlos Usó feathers on the Spanish, European published a book about this cha- and American stages. racter entitled “Transvestite pride: Egmont de bries and the social Her period of greatest activity was repercussions of transformism in during the Second Spanish Repu- Spain in the first third of the 20th blic where he used to work on sta- century.” L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Fe - breroVector design printed on canvas 100x100cm · Price 575€ + tax L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Didi Maquiaveli For me one of the most powerful celebrities in Barcelona today. Goddess who represents luxury and quality. Didi Maquiaveli means the ‘divineo’ on stage, the value of the image in editorials and the high class from another planet in fashion shows. All this supported with effort, constant reinvention and what it takes to maintain the night life, working night and day, maintaining professionalism and good taste without losing the essence of the woman behind the character. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Virginia Hielo Young artist from the underground queer scene of Barcelona’s Raval who this year has published two books, the first entitled Melting Ice that talks about relational anachy, using as an example the personal relationships that marked his 2019 and the second Sea Foam that includes photography, illustration and introspection poetics. Both books presented at Candy Darling in Barcelona. In the current situation and given the high unemployment rates for trans people, it has launched a campaign through the gofundme platform for those who want to help pay for their transition. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Mar- zoVector design printed on canvas 100x100cm · Price 575€ + tax L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Mimi Pompóm Transformism artist weighing more than 100 kilograms of solid gold who became known in the 1980s with La Belle Epoque, a Music-Hall show directed by the genius of the show Dolly Van Doll, where the Luz de Gas club currently resides in Barcelona. Mimi Pompóm always used humor in her transformism creating characters that were a fantasy and what she transmits to me in her per- formances is the tenderness of a big baby. That same tenderness that went beyond the screen and made her connect with the public who saw her both live and through TV3 from their homes. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Manel Dalgó As a young dancer, she began in Barcelona transformismo in the 1980s with the super star vedette of the parallel Ana Lúpez, who owned the mythical ‘Barcelona de Noche’. She directed her own company in a stage of Spanish transformismo where teamwork, the performing arts, dance, theater, variety shows and the entertainment of an audience that attended her shows, both in Spain and Europe, prevailed and demanding excellence. Today she resides in Monaco and is remembered for her generosity, dedication and professionalism. L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN A - brilVector design printed on canvas 100x100cm · Price 575€ + tax L’ART I CAFÉ · SITGES 01 / 04 / 2021 - 30 / 09 / 2021 POR RUBÉN ANTÓN Wayúu Queen Venezuelan actress and stage artist who has developed her transformism in Barcelona after a more than successful career in Venezuela, even awarded in different artistic projects.

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