Gilbert & George
George was born in Devon in 1942. Gilbert was born in Italy in 1943, in a small village in the Dolomites. They met as students on the sculpture course at St Martins School of Art, London, where they exhibited and created art together. They adopted the identity of ‘living sculptures’ in their art and their daily lives, becoming not only creators, but also the art itself. Gilbert & George place themselves, their thoughts and their feelings at the centre of their art, so almost all of the images they use are gathered within walking distance of their home in London’s East End.
Yet their pictures capture a broad human experience, encompassing an astonishing range of emotions and themes. From rural idylls to gritty images of decaying London; from sex advertisements to religious fundamentalism. Consequently, their work has a broad, international appeal.
Side by Side
Side by Side is a unique glimpse into the mercurial world that Gilbert & George construct around themselves.
A 'contemporary sculpture novel’, Side by Side functions as a kind of manifesto of their view of life and art. We follow them 'in the Nature', in a playful celebration of the Romantic flâneur as they traverse the English countryside. Also, through 'A Glimpse into the Abstract World', brief but poetically ornate texts are teamed with hand-drawn, abstracted imagery.
‘The Reality in Our Living’ provides the gritty urban flipside to their earlier bucolic idyll and the black-and-white images flesh out the words of the...
£150.00
The World of Gilbert & George
The complete text of the pair’s only feature-length film (released in 1981). This hardback book includes all instructions, as well as 900 or so drawings visualising every scene and shot in the film.
This extraordinary publication takes the reader on a picaresque voyage through the artists' world. Above all, their own vision of their immediate environment in London's East End. It is a world of extremes, taking in the beauty of nature and the urban landscape, sex and eroticism, religion and spirituality, drunkenness and degradation, fear and human aggression, raucous humour and poetry. Wide in its range of imagery, moods and...
Artist’s Book£95.00