Retrospective of Gilbert & George, Brooklyn Museum, NY, Oct 3 - Jan 11

Exhibition Description:

This is the final venue of the international tour of the first retrospective of more than twenty years of art by the highly acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. The show comprises more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will only be seen at this Brooklyn Museum presentation.

Description:

Image: LIFE, DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR, 1984
A quadripartite picture
© Gilbert & George
95 1/4 x 119 1/4 in.
Tate, London. Purchased 1990

About the Retrospective: The exhibition was organized by the Tate Modern in London, with the support and collaboration of the artists. Gilbert & George consider this to be the definitive presentation of their career because it traces their stylistic and emotional evolution through their pictures and works in other media dating back to the 1960s.

The duo met in 1967 while students at St. Martin's Art School in London. The art they created together developed a uniquely recognizable style that can be seen in both their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures. Over the past forty years they developed a new format that created visually and emotionally powerful large scale pictures using a unique creative process. They have created most of their pictures in groups, often made especially for the space in which they were first exhibited.

Gilbert & George's art, sometimes being seen as controversial and provocative, considers the entire cosmology of human experience, exploring themes such as faith and religion, sexuality, race and identity, urban life, terrorism, superstition, AIDS-related loss, aging, and death. The works on display have been loaned from public and private collections in North America and Europe.

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