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eNews #184
August 14, 2015
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| October 3 - 4, 2015
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents:
Tom of Finland
Art Fair 2015
SAVE THE DATE!
At TOM House, Echo Park
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September 10 -
October 10, 2015
New York City, NY
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CLAMPART
Presents:
An Exhibition of Self-portraits from the 1970s and Early '80s. Peter Berlin was the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, three drawings by Tom of Finland, and at least one portrait by Andy Warhol
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September 18 - 20, 2015
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Printed Matter, Inc.
Presents:
The NY Art Book Fair
At MoMA PS1
The Posters will be offering a high quality Tom of Finland poster. The NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists' books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.
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June 13 -
September 13, 2015
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Artists Space
Presents:
Tom of Finland:
The Pleasure of Play
The first comprehensive Tom of Finland survey exhibition in the US has been EXTENDED!
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August 15, 2015
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents a:
Summer BBQ
Celebrating AIDS/LifeCycle
Sorry, this event is sold-out. For those attending, information on getting to TOM House and sponsor info, visit our Detail Page.
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Friends and Authors:
Joakim Andreasson, Valentine Hooven, Dian Hanson and Durk Dehner at Austere Tom of Finland talk on 30th July.
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Returning the love: As seen in his drawings, TOM's traditional Finnish boots from Lapland (lapikkaat) painstakingly restored by Dave Alexson.
"I had entrusted this special footgear into the care of Mastro Geppetto, or was his name Merlin, or Sleepy, or the unnamed spawn of the lord of the middle earth? No, he is known as David Alexson - my Leather brother - and he is a bit of all of the above."
-- Durk Dehner
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Tom of Finland Gets His Biggest Show Yet
A Review in
Artnet News
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991),
Untitled, 1962, Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection,
© 1962 Tom of Finland Foundation
New York's Artists Space is going deep on master of gay erotica Tom of Finland. The Finnish artist is known for his raunchy drawings of hypermuscular, dramatically endowed, leather-clad gay men. Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play opens this Saturday and includes eye-popping depictions of group sex and BDSM, along with an extensive presentation of collages of the artist's source material.
The show aims to highlight the artist's dual artistic identity, being that he was employed as as senior art director at the Helsinki office of the global ad firm McCann Erickson-the ones behind the legendary "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial.
From an article by Brian Boucher
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Guest Lecture: Eve Fowler
A Review in
Artillery
Eve Fowler at Mier Gallery
The Difference is Spreading, 2015,
installation view
Eve Fowler's exhibition at Mier Gallery
The Difference is Spreading, reflects an intense, five-year-long engagement with the words of Gertrude Stein. For Fowler, this engagement is at once syntactical, visual, haptic, lingual-each form of perception sliding over and upon each other, privileging none.
Her work with the texts remains in some intrinsic way true to her photographic practice, one in which she singles out elements of Stein's word-world for us to look at, to take into the mouth, to feel.
From an article by Litia Perta
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Tom of Finland Pillows
A Review in
GAYLETTER
Photography by ORLANDO ISRAEL
Well, at least we're consistent. Tom of Finland is back. And he's in your bedroom.
A line of limited-edition pillows, crafted by Swedish luxury designer, Henzel Studio, pays homage to the artist we know and love. "The collection is ultimately a testament to both the revolutionary vision of Tom of Finland and the extraordinary craftsmanship of Henzel Studio, which has miraculously captured the artist's mastery of line, form, and shadow." The pillows come in three designs, each double sided with unique collages of original ToF work.
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Patrick Staff on Tom of Finland and The Foundation
at IMA Brisbane
A Review in BLOUIN ARTINFO
PATRICK STAFF,
The Foundation, 2015. Installation view,
Chisenhale Gallery, 2015. Courtesy the artist. Photo: ANDY Keate
Taking as his point of departure the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, home to the archive of the erotic artist and gay icon and a community of people that care for it, Staff has combined documentary footage of the foundation with a series of choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed to create a film that explores how a collection is formed, the communities that produce and are produced by a body of work, and ideas of intergenerational relationships and care.
From an article
by Nicholas Forrest
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Tom of Finland for the Girls
While most people, especially those in the queer community, are aware of the works of Tom of Finland, you would be hard pressed to find many who would know the work of
G. B. Jones.
Founder of the proto-riot grrrl band, Fifth Column, filmmaker and artist, Jones first published her drawings in her fanzine J.D.s (stands for Juvenile Delinquents) which she co-published with filmmaker Bruce LaBruce.
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Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991), Portrait of Pekka, 1975, Gouache on paper, 10.69" x 18.81", Tom of Finland Foundation Permanent Collection © 1975 Tom of Finland Foundation.
When approaching
The Pleasure of Play at Artists Space, the most comprehensive exhibition of Tom of Finland's works to date, it's curious to think of his drawings as being "from life." They appear far from it; if anything, they're an avoidance, or an outlet to escape his own lived experience. Tom was born in rural Finland and drafted into the Finnish army during World War II as teenager, before moving to Helsinki to study and eventually work for an international advertising agency.
All the while, Tom obsessively portrayed an idealized male form, and brought forth a depiction of pleasure that at the time could not have been enacted without fear. Tom's figures, however, even in his earliest drawings dating from the 1940s, are ecstatic, effusive, and ejaculating. It's almost difficult to see them as the result of an "underground", since the feeling they give off is a pronounced positivity, or even optimism.
From an article by Alex Philip Fitzgerald
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Revealed: Reasons Behind Erotic Sex Sculptures and Architecture on Hindu Temple Walls
An Article in All India Roundup
Markandeshwar Temple, Maharashtra.
India has been a land of temples with finest art and architecture across its geographical destinations. While very often many endless questions start brainstorming after being ascertained with the erotic sex sculptures on the wall so of temple for the devotees and visitors to the holy religious place.
Discussions and rumors have been abundant after these erotic sculptures while only a few could be found valid and acceptable.
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Totally Floored: Austere's Showcase of
Henzel Studio's Artistic Rugs
A Review in Wallpaper*
LA showroom Austere's exhibition of handmade rugs
from the Swedish textile company Henzel Studio
Henzel Studio brings an elevated artistic eye to an item that's usually underfoot. On view until September 14, silk-and-wool pieces conceived by such art world luminaries as Tom of Finland, Juergen Teller and Nan Goldin are shown in the United States for the first time, alongside collaborative rugs and pillows from such creative forces as Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Bernhard Willhelm.
From an article by Su Wu
Note: the exhibition has been extended until September 14th!
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A Bit of Time with
Tom of Finland
TOM OF FINLAND (Touko Laaksonen, Finnish, 1920 - 1991),
Untitled, 1986, Graphite on paper, 16.50" x 12.25",
© 1986 Tom of Finland Foundation
What can be said about Touko Laaksonen that hasn't already been said? His artistic output in myriad forms, unleashed over the last 50 or so years has had groundbreaking impact on global culture.
His artwork has been censored on a massive scale; an eponymous fashion line based on his work has graced many catwalks; his drawings are part of the collections of major institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; he's been referred to as one of the
"five most influential artists of the twentieth century."
From an article by Johnny Misheff
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Ride to End AIDS
June 5 - 11, 2016
Register Now and Take Advantage of the Very Special Registration Discount.
A fully supported, 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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