An Evening with Gilbert & George
Filmed in the British Council Hong Kong, 29 February 2012
As Hong Kong prepares for the world premiere of Gilbert & George's latest series, London Pictures at the new White Cube gallery, the British Council is proud to present the illustrious duo in an evening with writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow talking about everything from sex and death to religion, race, violence, corruption, and their ongoing love of the city of London. An evening not to be missed!
Date: Wednesday, 29 February 2012Registration required. Download the egistration form here.
Remarks
• Payment by cheque
Please fill in the form and return together with a crossed cheque payable to ‘British Council’ by mail to Arts & Creative Industries, British Council Hong Kong, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong, or in person to 3/F British Coucil Hong Kong, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong, on or before 27 February 2012. (Please specify "Registration for – An Evening with Gilbert & George” on the envelope.)
• Payment by cash
Please fill in the form and return together with cash in person to G/F, Book Center, British Council Hong Kong, 3 Supreme Court Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong, during office hours.
• Please put your full name and contact phone number on the back of cheque.
• In case the event is full, your cheque will not be cashed and the cheque will be returned by mail to your correspondence address.
• Successful applicants will receive a confirmation e-mail on or before 27 February 2012.
• The presenter reserves the final decision of the programmes and speakers arrangement.
Enquiries: arts@britishcouncil.org.hk / 2913 5244
Exhibition: LONDON PICTURES, Gilbert & George
White Cube
50 Connaught Road Central
From 2 March to 5 May 2012
‘Our subject matter is the world. It is pain. Pain. Just to hear the world turning is pain, isn’t it? Totally, every day, every second. Our inspiration is all those people alive today on the planet, the desert, the jungle, the cities. We are interested in the human person, the complexity of life.’
Gilbert & George
Bio of the artists:
“Art for all” is the belief that underpins Gilbert & George’s art. Their trademark format is the large grid, a square or rectangular picture broken into sections that becomes a unified field of signs and images.
Gilbert was born in Dolomites, Italy in 1943 and studied at Hallein School of Art and Munich Academy of Art. George was born in Devon, England in 1942 and studied at Dartington Hall College of Art and Oxford Art School. They began working together in London shortly after first meeting at St. Martin’s School of Art, London in 1967, and have continued to do so ever since. They were awarded the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London in 1986.
Gilbert and George invented and have been constantly developing their own visual language: “the content of mankind is our subject and our inspiration”. Using themselves as the primary subject of their art, they first appeared as ‘Living Sculpture’ in 1969. Wearing conventional suits, with their faces and hands painted, they would either adopt statuesque poses which lasted for several hours or, in the case of their most famous live performance Underneath the Arches, they were ‘Singing Sculpture’ standing on a table singing to a record of the old English music hall song of the same title. In addition to these durational performances, they made ‘Postcard Sculptures’, ‘Magazine Sculptures’ and were early pioneers of video art with their ‘Sculptures on Video Tape’. Between 1970 and 1974 they executed thirty ‘Charcoal on Paper Sculptures’ – large drawings in charcoal with text which in some instances completely covered the gallery walls and ceilings. In 1971 they made a series of paintings in oil on canvas entitled The Paintings (with Us in the Nature), a body of work which they again referred to as ‘sculpture’. Photography was to become their primary medium and, from the mid 1970s to the present, they have produced an enormous body of wall-based works using black rimmed grids to enable them to work on a large scale.
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