April 12, 2024
Gilbert and George - London Knife SIGNED RARE poster (British Modern Emin Hirst
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GILBERT AND GEORGE Signed poster from the London Pictures show SOLD OUT RARE and controversial 'KNIFE MURDER' poster from a limited edition measurements : 90CM X 60CM MINT CONDITION supplied in tube ready to be framedThe 'LONDON PICTURES' by Gilbert & George. This monumental body of 292 pictures is the largest series yet created by the artists.For five decades, to international acclaim, Gilbert & George have been making art that is visionary, shocking, relentless, moral and richly atmospheric. In these new ‘LONDON PICTURES’ (2011) Gilbert & George present an epic survey of modern urban life in all its volatility, tragedy, absurdity and routine violence. Brutal and declamatory, these brooding and disquieting pictures have been created from the sorting and classification by subject of nearly 4000 newspaper headline posters, stolen by the artists over a number of years. In their lucidity, no less than their insight into the daily realities of metropolitan life, the ‘LONDON PICTURES’ are Dickensian in scope and ultra-modern in sensibility. Drawing directly on the quotidian life of a vast city, the ‘LONDON PICTURES’ allow contemporary society to recount itself in its own language. Within the townscape of this moral audit, Gilbert & George appear to pass like ghosts and seers, alternately watchful and distracted, as though their spirits
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