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A new must-see video on MOCA TV

Richard Hawkins on Bob Mizer & Tom of Finland

A new video has launched today on the MOCA TV Youtube Channel about the exhibition Tom of Finland & Bob Mizer (a retrospective on the two iconic gay artists now on view at MOCA in Los Angeles until January 26th). The artist Richard Hawkins, a guest co-curator of the exhibition, takes us on a tour.

 

For those of you that didn’t get a chance to see the show in person this is a real treat. Richard “examines selections from the first-ever presentation of catalogue boards of Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild studios, which to him are enthusiastic celebrations of everyday youth and beauty, as well as Tom of Finland’s pencil drawings and pen-and-ink illustrations of radical sexuality. As an artist who has produced collage work, Hawkins pays particular attention to Finland’s collage binders, which appear to investigate icons of popular culture for their innate ‘hotness.'”

 

The video was directed by Emma Reeves, shot by Tom Salvaggio & Andy Featherston. Enjoy the video below: