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    Phillips New York
    432 Park Avenue
    New York, NY
    10022 (map)

  • VIEWING

    25 July–9 August
    Monday–Saturday,
    10am–6pm

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    Alexander Weinstock
    Associate Sales Director,
    Private Sales
    aweinstock@phillips.com

Exhibition Highlights

As part of Phillips’ Summer on Park programming, PhillipsX presents a dynamic selling exhibition featuring three visionary artists engaged in recent or upcoming collaborations with Phillips’ Dropshop. Showcasing works by Tom of Finland, Edgar Plans, and Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, the exhibition highlights practices that challenge conventions and explore themes of identity, community, and urban life. Together, these artists embody the power of art to inspire and disrupt across generations and cultures.

Edgar Plans (b. 1977, Madrid) is a Spanish contemporary artist known for his imaginative, emotionally resonant universe. Based in Gijón, he studied Art History at the University of Oviedo and developed a visual language rooted in spontaneity, storytelling, and social reflection. His iconic Animal Heroes—wide-eyed, expressive figures—populate vibrant works filled with symbols and cultural references, exploring themes of creativity and resilience. Plans has exhibited worldwide at institutions like the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and S2A Museum in Seoul, and his work has featured at Art Basel and other major fairs. His practice also spans fashion, sport, and global culture through collaborations with Paris Saint-Germain, BE@RBRICK, and the NBA.

Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists for his groundbreaking depictions of the male figure. Though trained in advertising, his “dirty drawings,” begun as a teenager, became the focus of his life’s work. These masterful renderings of virile men, immersed in acts of homoerotic desire, were revolutionary both artistically and socially. A passionate draftsman, Tom created an imaginative universe that empowered Gay men and fueled liberation movements, reaffirming the centrality of sexuality, joy, and the body in human experience.

TOM OF FINLAND Untitled (Preparatory Drawing), 1985

Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils (b. 1987), is known for his distinctive visual language of “creative destruction,” carving into walls and urban surfaces to reveal layered portraits and poetic reflections on identity, memory, and urbanisation. Beginning with graffiti in the early 2000s, his practice now spans bas-relief carving, stencil painting, metal etching, pyrotechnics, and sculptural installations, as well as film and video projects. Vhils has exhibited globally at institutions including MAAT (Lisbon), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and his large-scale works animate public spaces worldwide. Constantly experimenting, he collaborates with local communities to humanise forgotten urban environments and explore the social fabric of contemporary cities.

ALEXANDRE FARTO aka VHILS, Pictorial Series #21, 2024

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