Gilbert & George

born 1943, born 1942

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.

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Artworks

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Gilbert & George Light Headed

1991
Gilbert & George Existers

1984
Gilbert & George George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit

1969
Gilbert & George Fates

2005
Gilbert & George Red Morning Trouble

1977
Gilbert & George Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk

1972
Gilbert & George Thirst

1982
Gilbert & George Death Hope Life Fear

1984

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Artist as subject

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Gilbert & George Light Headed

1991
Gilbert & George Existers

1984
Gilbert & George George the Cunt and Gilbert the Shit

1969
Gilbert & George Fates

2005
Gilbert & George Red Morning Trouble

1977
Gilbert & George Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk

1972
Gilbert & George Naked Eye

1994
Gilbert & George Cunt Scum

1977
Gilbert & George Family Tree

1991

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Film and audio

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Unlock Art: What's so Funny?

Tamsin Greig finds the funny side of art
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Unlock Art: Great Double Acts

Rock band The Kills jump on a tandem to explore the art of collaboration
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Gilbert & George: 'Art has to be Extreme'

Gilbert & George discuss their bomb pictures
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In the Studio: Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George discuss their bomb pictures
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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. From ...
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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. The ...
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Gilbert & George: Artists' Talk

Gilbert & George are in conversation with Michael Bracewell.
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Sarah Kent on Gilbert & 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 & George

Gilbert & George in conversation about their work.
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Gilbert & George - Film 2

Gilbert & George explain how they keep track of the source material, indexing everything

Features

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Tate Etc

‘You’re so sheer, you’re so chic, teenage rebel of the week’

Jon Savage

Glam! The Performance of Style at Tate Liverpool
Art Term

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art ...
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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The Exquisite Corpse is alive and well: Collaboration

Anne Ellegood

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

Jean Fisher

The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision and ...
Tate Papers

The Legacy of Interaction: Artists at the Imperial War Museum 1981–2007

Catherine Moriarty and Angela Weight

The idea that artists might reinvigorate and activate collections in new ways no longer seems a radical concept, but this ...
Tate Etc

Thirty years of eternity: Walter de Maria

Thomas Kellein

Broken Kilometer, as Kellein writes, surpasses many other great works: "Even Barnett Newman's 'zip' paintings, Dan Flavin's fluorescent ...
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The year of the locked room: St. Martin's School of Art

Hester Westley

Hester Westley delves into the archives of St Martin’s School of Art, and finds a project almost forgotten, a ...
Tate Etc

Naked human artists: Gilbert & George

Wolf Jahn

Gilbert & George have made some iconic images of themselves, and of an alternative English sensibility. Wolf Jahn interviews them.
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The material world: Richard Deacon

Tony Cragg

Sculpture was historically the domain of the artist-worker, armed with hammer and chisel. Now the artist may use any material ...