Keep your Timber Limber draws in politics of conflict and sexual taboos at ICA London

20th July 2013, 1:25 am

Exhibition review: Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, until 8 September, 2013

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Tom of Finland, Untitled (1963)
© 1963 Tom of Finland Foundation, Incorporated


 
What strikes you about the Tom of Finland works, meanwhile, are that, until they get their clothes off, his uniformed young men look so clean cut. The light touch in his meticulous drawings is a rare thing to find in erotica of any persuasion.
 
 
 
 

By Mark Sheerin

 
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Published: 20th July 2013

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