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'The work is part of the cycle "The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting" (1971) in which Gilbert & George act as "living sculptures", using their bodies as material and fusing art...
Jun 24, 2015 · Since their time as students together at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, in the late 1960s, Gilbert & George aimed to create accessible art in contrast to what they viewed as the elitist and narrow confines of Minimalism and Conceptualism dominant at the time.
The art of Gilbert & George is the epic story of two seekers-after-truth, all that they encounter, all that occurs to them, always alone, always together. Gilbert & George repudiate the reach and influence of art theory as a means of conceiving, creating, ‘solving’ or ‘explaining’ a work of art.
- 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.
Jun 30, 2001 · These days, Gilbert & George’s “Art for all” takes the form of giant, carefully composed, photopieces, always featuring the inseparable duo, which have been exhibited world wide.
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