Picasso Iron Men, 2013–14

Cyril Georget’s art is unashamedly homoerotic, centring almost exclusively on the male body and on male intimacy. His paintings and drawings explore desire between men not as a transgressive spectacle, but as a lived, quietly observed reality. The male body is neither idealised in a heroic sense nor caricatured; instead, it is presented as vulnerable, sensual, and emotionally present.

Georget’s canvases range from single men, through couples, to complex compositions placing his naked subjects in a wide variety of realistic and fantasy settings, including references to many classical traditions, Greek, Roman, Indian and Central American. Unapologetically male-focused, erotic without always needing to be explicitly sexual, and attentive to tenderness as much as desire, his work contributes to a visual language in which gay intimacy is normalised, dignified, and allowed the same complexity historically granted to heterosexual erotic art.