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  • Gilbert & George, Street Meet, 1982

    Gilbert & George b. 1943 / 1942

    Street Meet, 1982
    Mixed media
    241 x 350 cm; (94 7/8 x 137 3/4 in.)
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    Gilbert & George are most renowned for their large-scale artworks, collectively known as 'The Pictures'. In the 1970s they began creating pictures of black and white images, soon arranging them...
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    Gilbert & George are most renowned for their large-scale
    artworks, collectively known as "The Pictures". In the 1970s they began
    creating pictures of black and white images, soon arranging them into
    grid-like structures; by 1974 they incorporated red
    into their pictures; in the 1980s they introduced other bright
    colours into their repertoire and adopted a more stylized and graphic
    appearance in their pictures; and by the beginning of the 21st century fully embraced digital technology in their creativity.


    Street Meat,
    1982, demonstrating the riot of colour that erupted in Gilbert &
    George's works of the 1980s, comes from a series of photos depicting
    young men, typically youth from the East End of London where the artists
    have been firmly rooted since 1967, in staged, theatrical poses,
    casting them as 'living sculptures'. George explained that these
    photo-portraits were meant to counter negative stereotypes, particularly
    of an art world who "couldn't handle works of modern art showing young
    people from neighbourhoods where they themselves didn't want to live,
    where they wouldn't even choose to go." Gilbert professed, "When using
    models, we devoted all our power to making them totally beautiful."

    Provenance

    Ileanna Sonnabend Gallery
    Private Collection
    Private Collection, Italy

    Exhibitions

    New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Gilbert & George, Modern Faith, 1983
    London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Gilbert & George, Works from a Private Collection, 6 October - 6 November 2020

    Publications

    Carter Ratcliff, Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, London 1986, p. 200, illustrated in colour
    Rudi Fuchs (ed.), Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, London 2007, vol. I, pp. 395, 441, illustrated in colour
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