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- 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.
Gilbert & George. 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.
- 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.
Gilbert and George rewrote the rulebook by creating a huge body of work that not only often featured both their naked likenesses but also used slogans like 'riot homos' and even images of ejaculation to foreground their sexuality.
Nov 23, 2017 · In their quest for an “art for all”, Gilbert & George renounced their separate identities, becoming “living” sculptures, “two people, one artist” by their definition, and compared to a Holy Trinity by the critic David Sylvester: “two persons but one Creator”.
After creating a series of large charcoal drawings (c. 1970–75), Gilbert & George began to focus their efforts on making large multi-paneled photographic works that took on an increasingly social and political tone.
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Gilbert & George. Describing their relationship in life and work, Gilbert & George have said, “It’s not a collaboration. . . . We are two people, but one artist.”. George, born in Devon, England, in 1942, and Gilbert, born in the Dolomites, Italy, in 1943, met while studying sculpture at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1967.
