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Gilbert & George Four Haunts 2003 Nine hand-dyed photographs in artist’s metal frames. 27 7/8 x 33 1/4 in. (71 x 84.5 cm) each; 83 3/4 x 99 7/8 in. (213 x 253.5 cm) overall. Signed "Gilbert & George” along lower edge.
Provenance Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris Exhibited Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac; Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint - Etienne Metropole and Hannover, kestnergesellschaft, Gilbert & George 20 London E1 Pictures, June 12, 2004 - July 17, 2005 Literature M. Luisa Gartner, ed., Gilbert & George Twenty London East One Pictures, France/Germany 2004, pp. 54 - 55 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay Writing, words and letters, the names of streets and squares in the East End of London—these dominate Gilbert & Goerge’s new series 20 London E1 Pictures.The artist duo has lived and worked in the E1 district for over thirty years. It is a melting-pot of various cultures, a mixture of hip scene and acute poverty, in itself a macrocosm within a macrocosm.With rigorous austerity the artists display the names of the places around them on plates designed in contrasting black, white and red. Some of these plates bear a signet consisting of the postcode E1 and the initials of Gilbert & George… Amid the printed signs, as usual, are Gilbert & George themselves…In many of the ‘London E1’ pictures, a completely new feature is to be observed. The figures of Gilbert & George vanish into a diffuse blur, grow indistinct and seem to dissolve.The portrayals have the effect of infra-red or X-ray images, whitish-grey with a reddish tinge, digitally manipulated silhouettes. Gilbert & George recently computerized their entire production. In Four Haunts, the blurred silhouettes are veiled and ghostly. (A. Prenzler, “How Living Sculptures Become Ghosts,” Twenty London East One Pictures, kestnergesellschaft, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole and the GalleryThaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 2004.) Read More