'The Singing Sculpture 1969-91' (1993)
Aluminium foil relief print with silkscreen, edition of 100Signed and numbered by the artistPrice subject to availability
(34" x 31")
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six foot person and work to scale
Gilbert & George
Gilbert: 1943, George: 1942
British sculptors Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore met in 1967 as students at St Martin's School of Art in London. By 1969 they were reacting against approaches to sculpture then dominant at St Martin's, which they regarded as elitist and poor at communicating outside an art context. Their strategy was to make themselves into sculpture, so sacrificing their separate identities to art and turning the notion of creativity on its head. To that end Gilbert and George became interchangeable cyphers and their surnames were dispensed with.
Although working in a variety of media, Gilbert and George referred to all their work as sculpture. Their early work took the form both of what they called 'Postal Sculptures' and work in which they presented themselves as living sculptures', which focused attention on their own stylized actions and on their image as old-fashioned gentlemen. Their work concentrates on the inner-city reality that confronts them on the street and on the structures and feelings that inform life, such as religion, class, royalty, sex, hope, nationality, death, identity, politics and fear. Their belief that they are making an 'Art for Life's Sake' and an Art for All' was, at the beginning of the 1990s, given a renewed emphasis through exhibitions in Moscow, Beijing and Shanghai.
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