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.
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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 Death Hope Life Fear
1984
Gilbert & George Naked Eye
1994
Artist as subject
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
Film and audio
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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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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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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
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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Performance art
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous ...
Tate Etc
‘You’re so sheer, you’re so chic, teenage rebel of the week’
Glam! The Performance of Style at Tate Liverpool
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 and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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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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