The GUCCI COSMOS Exhibition is coming to London

After a successful debut in Shanghai in April, the Gucci Cosmos exhibition is moving to the UK. Running from 11 October until 31 December, the immersive installation will showcase and celebrate the house’s most iconic and forward-thinking designs from its 102-year-long history.

The British artist Es Devlin, who designed the original Shanghai exhibit, has created a show space that pays homage to London, through a series of imaginative sets, sculptures and multimedia artworks. It will be staged at 180 Studios.

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House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to artist Tom of Finland

This year House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to gay cultural icon and prolific artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), in partnership with Tom of Finland Foundation and the Finnish Institute in London.

This timely exhibition, on the centenary of his birth, will celebrate the artist whose homoerotic visions had a profound effect on gay communities in Europe and North America during a pivotal period in their history and continue to have an immeasurable influence on popular culture today. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation will display 40 works on paper produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, both before and after homosexuality was decriminalised in much of Europe and the U.S.

It will include early drawings of men fighting that constituted the only legal way to show physical contact between men before decriminalisation, as well as illustrations from his iconic Kake comics and rare linocuts produced in very limited editions.

The exhibitiion wil be on from the 6th of March until late June.

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