Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Gilbert & George

Biography

Gilbert & George have been collaborating since they met in 1967 at the St. Martin's School in London. As students they adopted the form of "living sculptures" by walking through the streets and parks of London covered from head to toe in metallic make-up. Later, they moved their performances to indoor exhibition spaces and began touring internationally. From the outset, Gilbert & George wanted to collapse the distance between art and the artist. Since "Living Sculptures", they have worked in a variety of media including books, film, and photo pieces which they also consider "sculpture" and, in doing so, have transcended the modernist tenets of performance and process art as well as conceptualism. Gilbert and George have exhibited widely throughout the world. Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2002, The Factry at the School of Art, Athens (2001), adn The Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (2002). To download artist's CV, please click on "Printable PDF of Full Text"
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Gallery Exhibitions

Perversive Pictures  6 November - 18 December 2004
The Fundamental Pictures  3 May - 28 June 1997

Museum Exhibtions

Tate Modern - Major Exhibition  15 February - 7 May 2007
Venice Biennale - The Ginko Pictures  12 June - 6 November 2005

Press

New York Times Style Magazine - New York Times Style Magazine - December, 2007
Modern Painters May 2007 - Modern Painters May 2007 - May, 2007
New York Times - New York Times - August, 2005
Art + Auction - Art + Auction - July, 2005
Modern Painters - Modern Painters - June, 2005
Artforum - Artforum - March, 2005
ARTnews - ARTnews - February, 2005
Art in America - Art in America - February, 2005
New York Times - New York Times - December, 2004
ArtReview - ArtReview - July, 2004
Art in America - Art in America - October, 1997
Paper - Paper - June, 1997

Publications

Gilbert & George - The Complete Pictures 1971--2005
Gilbert & George - Perversive Pictures
Gilbert & George - The Fundamental Pictures

Selected Works

Fingle-Fangle, 2004 mixed media 111.02 x 198.43 inches 282 x 504 cm LM8230


Haunters, 2004 mixed media 99.21 x 177.17 inches 252 x 450 cm LM8243


Gold Tags, 2004 mixed media 88.58 x 124.02 inches 225 x 315 cm LM8251


Brick Lane, 2004 mixed media 99.21 x 147.64 inches 252 x 375 cm LM8245


Ishmael, 2004 mixed media 111.02 x 231.5 inches 282 x 588 cm LM8227


Over, 2004 mixed media 99.21 x 88.58 inches 252 x 225 cm LM8256


Spat On, 1996 photograph 74.8 x 118.9 inches 190 x 302 cm LM1915


Blood on Blood, 1996 photograph 59.4 x 50 inches 150.9 x 127 cm LM1909


Holy Piss, 1996 photograph 55.9 x 99.6 inches 142 x 253 cm LM1893


Bloody Naked, 1996 photograph 89 x 200 inches 226.1 x 508 cm LM1900


Bloody Mooning, 1996 photograph 133 x 223.6 inches 337.8 x 567.9 cm LM1886


Piss Guns, 1996 photograph 83.9 x 133 inches 213.1 x 337.8 cm LM1890