Gilbert & George: 8 works

'Gilbert & George live and work in the East End of London where they make their photo works using themselves and young men of the neighbourhood as subjects.'

'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 with the everyday in large-scale black and white images.'

'It is inscribed by the sculptors 'Gilbert' and 'George' and also with the number in the edition of 25 which is '1'. Gilbert and George first worked with video in 1970 at the invitation of Gerry Schum and made 'The Nature of Our Looking' (Approximate duration 18 minutes.)'

'The Singing Sculpture' 'The Shrubberies Number 1' 'The Shrubberies Number 2' 16--21 August 1973 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 29 August -- 2 September 1973 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne For Project 3 in 1973, Gilbert & George presented 'The Singing Sculpture' in both Sydney and Melbourne, merging sculpture and performance and bringing art into everyday life.'

'As Suzanne Pagé has noted, 'Like the artists of the Middle Ages, Gilbert & George create images to initiate and explain.'(4) We might imagine that the message preached in this work is a type of warning.'

'The composition titled Gilbert & George, dated 1999 is part of a broader and unfinished cycle of computer manipulations in which, by changing the context and the use of telling details, he destroys the traditional image of actors.'

'In the late sixties, under the democratic motto Art for All, the artists' duo Gilbert & George presented themselves as Living Sculptures, which gave them every opportunity to share their thoughts and feelings with the public.'

'Gilbert & George ASTRO STAR 2013, aus der Serie "Scapegoating Pictures" © Gilbert & George'