Love Stories & Claude Guenard, at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space

Esther Revuelta, 2005. Courtesy Hardcore Art Contemporary Space

April 11 - June 6, 2009

Opening April 11, 2009, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space presents “Love Stories” in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center (CCE) and a solo exhibition by French artist Claude Guenard.

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space unites its efforts with CCE, the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the VISIBLE Collection and Gay Pride Celebration in Miami, in order to promote human rights and equality for all human beings through art.

As a result of this effort, the gallery inaugurates “Love Stories” from the VISIBLE Collection with a gallery walk by Pablo Peinado, curator of the collection, on April 11 prior to the 7 pm reception and launch party.

Additionally, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space will host a seminar on queer literature in conjunction with the University of Miami (UM) on April 29.

Concurrently with this show, the gallery will inaugurate a solo exhibition of Claude Guenard’s wildly erotic drawings and mixed media work. He thrives on showing what others don’t dare to show, a certain sexuality that seems to drive the world but is kept under wraps in our Judeo/Christian societies. His work is sometimes dominated by the sexual tension between sex and church, the tension between the forbidden and the inevitable.

In his own words, “I topple the values of representation and I create an interaction between words, drawing and the model. I whole-heartedly abuse the voyeurism of art buffs who only think about loving my drawings.”

Claude Guenard’s show remains on view until June 6.

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space. 3326 North Miami Avenue. Miami Fl. 33127

Ph: 305 5761645 /786 3190162

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