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‘With two people, it’s very easy’: Making art with Gilbert and George
03.07.2014
08:52 am
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It was love at first sight, George later said of his first meeting with Gilbert at Saint Martin’s Art School in 1967.

George said he was the only student who understood Gilbert’s Italian accent. Yet, it was more than just language, the pair complemented each other and were soon inseparable.

Gilbert believed they needed each other, as when the left St. Martin’s they were lost, they didn’t know how to start their artistic careers.

We were outsiders. We were regarded as some eccentrics who would do art that doesn’t fit in.

George thought that together they were stronger.

The lone artist has a problem because you have to ask questions. If you’re an artist painting a picture, he has to decide whether to have another cow in the corner, or not. And no answer comes back, of course.

With two people, it’s very easy. You ask the question, somebody gives the answer.

In 1969, Gilbert and George performed their first work of art as “Living Sculptures.” They stood on a raised stage and sang “Underneath the Arches,” an old music hall number made famous by the comedy double act Flanagan and Allen.

Over the next four decades, Gilbert and George produced a body of work that made the pair among the most iconic artists in the world.

“Ninety-nine per cent of the people involved in looking at our pictures are not collectors and would never think of being,” says George.

“They go to exhibitions of our work and buy catalogues and videos of us. When we say ‘Art for All’ we mean more an art which is addressing the issues that are inside us all of us.”

“An art,” says Gilbert, “that is not elitist, and that is not based on the inner circle of the art world; that ordinary people are able to come in and get something from.”

In 2007, Tate Modern curated a major retrospective of forty years of work by Gilbert and George. To tie in with the exhibition, the BBC made a documentary for its arts series Imagine called “Gilbert and George: No Surrender,” in which presenter Alan Yentob met with and interviewed the artists at home, in their studio, and in preparation for their show.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds
Gilbert and George: Living Sculptures
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Gilbert and George: Living Sculptures
Gilbert and George: Headline grabbing ‘London Pictures’ opens Hong Kong White Cube

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03.07.2014
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Gallery of Lost Art: Work from Bacon, Beuys, Kahlo, Haring, Freud & more will soon disappear forever
07.04.2013
06:52 pm
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Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1952

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye!

All good things must come to an end, and after a highly successful year, the Gallery of Lost Art is about to (sadly) disappear forever!

The Gallery of Lost Art is on-line site which showcases artworks that have been lost, stolen, discarded, rejected and destroyed. It explains how great works of art can fall victim to heists, fire, war, bad luck–even an artist deciding to destroy their own works. The virtual exhibition tells the stories of what led to the disappearance of these major pieces, some (like Christo’s “Wrapped Reichstag”) which were never intended to be permanent in the first place (like this digital exhibit).

Some of artists included in the ephemeral exhibition are Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Frida Kahlo, Tracey Emin, Egon Schiele, Kurt Schwitters, Lucien Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, Rachel Whiteread, and Keith Haring among many others.

There is now just over one day until the site will cease to exist and all its exhibited artworks, information, and archive materials will simply disappear into the ether. Now is your last chance to visit the Gallery of Lost Art before it’s too late. The project was a collaboration between Tate Modern, Channel 4, and ISO Design, and has picked multiple awards from SXSW, Design Week, and the Museums and Heritage Innovation Award, as well as becoming a Webbys Honoree. The gallery has received over 100,000 visitors from more than 150 different countries.

Visit the site here.
 

Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:

Gallery of Lost Art: A century of vanished work by the likes of Freud, Kahlo & Duchamp

With thanks to Heidi Kuisma

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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07.04.2013
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Damien Hirst: Poster downloads for his Tate Modern 2012 exhibition
03.12.2012
08:37 am
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With Damien Hirst’s forthcoming retrospective at the Tate Modern, London, the Observer newspaper is offering an exclusive download to 4 poster’s from the show.

Click here to download the Damien Hirst poster of “his exquisite paintings of butterflies”. Here for “spots”. Click here for the famous shark. And here “the splash that got the critics in a spin”.

Read the Observer‘s exclusive interview with Damien Hirst here, and for details of Tate Moden’s Damien Hirst exhibition check here
 
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Via the Observer
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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03.12.2012
08:37 am
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Art not oil: London artists let the truth spill at the Tate

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As you can see, London artist collective Liberate Tate were at it on Monday, letting the Tate Modern art museum know during their BP-feting summer party that taking sponsorship money from the oil giant is unacceptable. Don’t be misled by the occasional media reports of indignant Englanders bristling about the supposed anti-British nature of BP bashing. While we in the US have been driving around barely knowing what “BP” stands for, UK orgs like Art Not Oil have been working since 2004 to call attention to BP’s and Shell’s beneficent use of arts sponsorship to divert public attention away from their actual activities.

And now you can spill on the Tate yourself!
 

 

Posted by Ron Nachmann
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06.30.2010
01:18 am
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