GILBERT & GEORGE

Lot 79
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85000 - 100000 EUR
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Result : 156 000EUR
GILBERT & GEORGE
Coming to the cross, 1982 Unique work. Installation of sixteen color photographs. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unique work. Installation of sixteen color photographs. Signed, dated and titled lower right. H_244 cm L_200 cm Provenance: - Gallery Allesandro Bagnai, Florence - acquired from this gallery by the current owner - private collection "We have within us a host of thoughts, feelings, desires, dreams, hopes, fears - so many things within us - And we feel, as artists, an immense, ambitious, devouring need to say these things, to externalize them..." Under the sign of fusion They believe in the human condition as a supreme ideal. Man is for them the most astonishing thing and the formal dimension of art (colour and forms) is only meant to serve the subject and has no importance of its own. They are absolutely against art for art's sake. Their art is about life. They think that they create the images the world needs and not the images people want to see. They call themselves the preachers of life. They hope to strike the viewer before he has time to think. Together they are moving towards something different, they are creating new movements. They always take new images, but it takes time to use them, so that they make sense. It's part of the creative process, as well as never knowing when it starts and where it really ends. The soul of their creations is an evolution of their ideas together. Their research is very long, so they never know which of the many parts of their research will become their next painting. They don't want to be too aware of where they are going, they try to keep their heads clear and often arrive at their studio without ideas. They close their eyes and let their hands do their work, it's like magic to let the painting out of themselves. They now feel able to create images on their own from start to finish. Red and Yellow:
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