ART: Exploring Pol Anglada’s Latest Erotic Exhibition, “Hole”. (NSFW)

Written By Gary Hartley

Since 2019, Pol Anglada has gained widespread recognition for his (homo)erotic depictions of Queer experiences and encounters. His latest exhibition, appropriately titled “Hole”, continues this journey with a series of erotic and abstracted close-ups.

“I love the sound of ‘Hole’. As I was saying before, it comes from growing up with my dad’s comics, listening to lots of Spanish punk music when I was a teenager, and listening to Hole with Courtney Love. It’s this riot grrrl attitude, as well as the hole of emotions, of sexual desire. More literally, it’s about an asshole, a mouth hole, a glory hole,” says Anglada in an interview with Interview Magazine.


By utilising watercolour and coloured pencils as media, Anglada’s works have a monochromatic hue that evokes the limited colourways of vintage comics and pop-art, a source material and language that is further emphasised through composition and cropping. 

 “The artist manipulates this lens even further by framing his subjects in formats that reference glory and peep holes, creating erogenous and abstracted close-ups that although erotic never appears pornographic,” states the Tom of Finland Foundation.

“Hole” will be on view at Los Angeles’ CULTUREEDIT gallery until 10 May.

All photos courtesy Pol Anglada.

Gary Hartley
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