Gilbert & George
born 1943, born 1942
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Biography
Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943 in San Martin de Tor, Italy), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth, United Kingdom), are two artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George. They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks. In 2017, the artists celebrated their 50th anniversary.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Gilbert & George George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit
1969 -
Gilbert & George Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk
1972 -
Gilbert & George Fates
2005 -
Gilbert & George Family Tree
1991 -
Gilbert & George Existers
1984 -
Gilbert & George Thirst
1982 -
Gilbert & George Red Morning Trouble
1977 -
Gilbert & George Cunt Scum
1977
Artist as subject
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Gilbert & George George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit
1969 -
Gilbert & George Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk
1972 -
Gilbert & George Fates
2005 -
Gilbert & George Family Tree
1991 -
Gilbert & George Existers
1984 -
Gilbert & George Red Morning Trouble
1977 -
Gilbert & George Cunt Scum
1977 -
Gilbert & George Naked Eye
1994 -
Gilbert & George Balls: The Evening Before the Morning After - Drinking Sculpture
1972
Film and audio
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Sarah Kent on Gilbert and George
Sarah Kent, renowned critic and former visual arts editor of Time Out, gives a candid account of Gilbert & George. … -
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Gilbert and George with Michael Bracewell
Gilbert & George have been active for four decades, boldly contesting elitist rubrics that exist within the British arts establishment. …
Features
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Art Term
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art …
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Art Term
Performance art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous …
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Tate Etc
The Exquisite Corpse is alive and well: Collaboration
The exquisite corpse is alive and well; Anne Ellegood on Collaboration, Tate Etc. issue 18 Spring 2010 -
Tate Papers
The Other Story and the Past Imperfect
The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision …
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Tate Papers
The Legacy of Interaction: Artists at the Imperial War Museum 1981–2007
The idea that artists might reinvigorate and activate collections in new ways no longer seems a radical concept, but this …
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Tate Etc
Thirty years of eternity: Walter de Maria
Broken Kilometer, as Kellein writes, surpasses many other great works: "Even Barnett Newman's 'zip' paintings, Dan Flavin's fluorescent tube …
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Tate Etc
The year of the locked room: St. Martin's School of Art
Hester Westley delves into the archives of St Martin’s School of Art, and finds a project almost forgotten, a teaching …
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Tate Etc
Naked human artists: Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George have made some iconic images of themselves, and of an alternative English sensibility. Wolf Jahn interviews them.
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Tate Etc
The material world: Richard Deacon
Sculpture was historically the domain of the artist-worker, armed with hammer and chisel. Now the artist may use any material …
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