Image series 16 / 2021: Gilbert & George
„Living Sculptures“
18 April 2021
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By: Bettina Pfleging
With the performance “The Singing Sculpture”, 1969 to 1970, the British artist couple Gilbert & George became internationally famous. Painted in bright metallic colours, they stood for hours, usually on a table, posing in mechanical movements, singing to “Underneath the Arches” from 1932 and alternately swapping glove and walking stick. Since then, they have been staging themselves, their lives, their thoughts, feelings, refusing to separate their action art from their everyday lives. As “Living Sculptures” they embody their art, are the subject and object of their large-format collages and gridded visual worlds.
The comprehensive retrospective features 45 works by the artist collective Gilbert & George from 1971 to 2019.
„Gilbert & George. The Great Exhibition“
12 February to 16 May 2021, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Gilbert & George. Singing Sculpture [Gesamtansicht/Vorderseite], Ausschnitt, 1991, ausgestellt: Sonnabend Gallery, New York; DadaWeb, Universität zu Köln, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Gilbert & George. Singing Sculpture, Ausschnitt, 1971, New York; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Gilbert & George. The Singing Sculpture, Ausschnitt, 1970, London; DiDi – Digitale Diathek, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin
Gilbert & George. Underneath the Arches; Singing Sculpture [Gesamtansicht: London, Nigel Greenwood Gallery], 1970; DadaWeb, Universität zu Köln, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Gilbert & George. Living Sculpture, Ausschnitt, 1970, Berlin; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Gilbert & George. Die rote Skulptur, 1975; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Gilbert & George. Freundschaft, Ausschnitt, 1982, 420 × 450 cm, London; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Gilbert & George. They, 1986, 241 × 201 cm; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
