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- Gilbert & George are a total modern independent visionary artist, alone. The vision of Gilbert & George is firstly their singular and particular way of seeing, experiencing and celebrating life. The vision of Gilbert & George is also and simultaneously their way of seeing and creating art.
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Gilbert Prousch, [1] [2] sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch [3] [4] [5] (born 17 September 1943), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942) are artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George.
Nearby, The Gilbert & George Centre, which opened in April 2023, provides a permanent home for their art and archive. Alert to the turmoil of the city through its ceaseless churn of material, they are ‘visionary artists in the lineage of William Blake’, says critic Michael Bracewell.
- The pair were born a year apart: George (Passmore) in the English county of Devon in 1942, Gilbert (Proesch) in a village in the Italian Dolomites in 1943.
- Their big breakthrough came in 1969 with a performance piece called The Singing Sculpture. For this, the pair covered their faces in bronze-coloured paint, stood on a small table, and sang the classic, music-hall number, Underneath the Arches.
- In time, the pair moved away from performance into drawing, video and, above all, photography. They created something of a trademark out of photographic grids, in which separate shots were combined in a single art work.
- The duo have lived in that same house – in the once-gritty, now-gentrified area of Spitalfields – for several decades. Life on the streets outside it has provided subject matter for many of their works over the years, notably the Dirty Words Pictures series.
- They've been together for 50 years. Gilbert & George met 50 years ago at St Martin’s School of Art in the "swinging London" of the Sixties. They hit it off immediately ("well, roughly", qualifies Gilbert) and have been living and making art together ever since.
- They've made a career of sticking the middle finger up. The idea of "free speech" has been an enduring theme for the artistic duo. They are vociferously anti-establishment and their work often sticks a middle finger up to "the frowning classes".
- They're currently thinking a lot about beards. "The whole idea of beards and no beards represents East and West in some way. Beards indicate class and religion", explains Gilbert.
- and about the state of today's culture. "The arts are so big these days, part of entertainment for the middle classes", says Gilbert, "but in general, there is very little else except eating, restaurants… People today are all bored in front of the computer; every job is just the computer.
Michael Prodger. Gilbert and George, the identically-dressed bank-clerk duo who have been a staple of British art for more than 50 years, live in a beautiful 1720s townhouse in Fournier Street in Spitalfields in London, sandwiched between Brick Lane and Liverpool Street Station.
Jul 1, 2018 · The artist duo Gilbert & George is made up of Italian-born Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943) and British George Passmore (b. 1942). They live and work together in London for 50 years and have made their mark on the international art scene.
