AllTogether : A Group Exhibition From The Collection of Tom of Finland Foundation
Los Angeles / Amsterdam: The Community Center, Tom of Finland Foundation / Diesel.
Condition: As New
Softcover
304 pp
Edition of 1000 copies
For over thirty years, Tom of Finland Foundation has been building the world's most extensive collection of LGBTQ+ art. Durk Dehner and Tom of Finland cofounded Tom of Finland Foundation in 1984 to better preserve and promote Tom's work. However, quickly the Foundation's role extended to promoting and archiving the works of other queer artists: the early years of Foundation coincided with the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Many erotic artists of the time, some working anonymously throughout their career, were concerned that their work would be forgotten or destroyed after their deaths. Thus, they donated their life's work to Foundation, knowing it would be carefully archived and their stories preserved.
AllTogether comprise more than two hundred works from the 1940s to the present day from over eighty artists in the collection, including Bruce Rapp, Annie Sprinkle, Benoit Prevot, Bastille, George Quaintance, Don Bachardy, Rick Castro, Goh Mishima, Gio Black Peter, Seth Bogart, Jim French, Michael Kirwan, Marcello Lupetti, Silvia Prada, Stanley Stellar, Suzanne Shifflett, TANK, Tom of Finland, Viktoria Raykova, and many more.
The AllTogether exhibition catalogue includes a preface by co-curator Sini Rinne-Kanto entitled “How to survive in the memory? Writing down stories from the largest erotic art collection in the world”; an essay by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou on the history of erotic art entitled “Tom of Finland Foundation, a safe house for a dangerous collection”; a three-part interview by Kristian Vistrup Madsen with Durk Dehner, President and Cofounder of Tom of Finland Foundation; artist conversations by writers Michael Bullock and Miss Rosen with Gio Black Peter, Rick Castro, Silvia Prada, and Stanley Stellar. Designed by Fay and Gina. Item #25171
Price: $55.00
