Ahead of Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival’s crash landing in London this weekend, the Foundation’s co-founder tells us the radical artists we should keep an eye out for
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The festival, now on its 27th iteration, is the ongoing work of the Tom of Finland Foundation, co-founded by its namesake artist and his close confidant and muse Sir Durk Dehner in 1984. With the themeguiding this year’s celebrations, the festival is an embodiment of Tom of Finland’s sexually liberated ideals, which exist more than simply to titillate, but to reflect an empowered queer culture that feels extensively marginalised.
These symbols of queer identity can spur validation in communities, but remain provocative for blurring the boundaries between art and porn. When Supreme Court Justice judge Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: “I know it when I see it” – but it’s a flimsy line that’s often tripped upon.
Opposing all forms of prudishness, the festival offers a safe space for queer people and kinksters in the erotic art field – for pleasure and freedom of the mind and body. Promoting Tom of Finland’s work in America and internationally, Dehner has worked for years promoting pro-sex attitudes through his film, publishing, photography and events, acting as a guardian of erotic art, preventing such work from discrimination and destruction.
ith the landscape of queer art in constant flux, Sir Durk Dehner spotlights four rising artists to watch out for at the Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2023 and beyond.“Marc has had a well-rounded educational journey. An interest in the human body led him to medical school where his mind wandered to the artistic side rather than clinical.
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