GILBERT & GEORGE (b.1943 & 42) Wooden Maquette, The Singing Sculpture, 1969
Description – In true G & G ironic style let Gilbert & George dance and dip with this colourful wooden push maquette. The perfect display objet d’art for any fan of the art duo.
The hand painted design evokes their 1969 work THE SINGING SCULPTURE in which they danced together on a table and sang the Flanagan and Allen standard Underneath the Arches. They presented the work all over the world, sometimes for eight hours at a stretch.
Artist : Gilbert & George
Title : The Singing Sculpture
Authorised : Published by Tate Gallery Publications 1993
Dimension : H 11 x diameter 5 cm
Medium : Crafted hard and soft wood with hand painted detailing
Signed : The duos signature is in black in block
Framed : No comes in original shipping carton
Original : 1st Edition
Limited Edition : Limited to an unknown number, approximately a run of 1000 number
Condition : In near perfect condition, stored in original packaging
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About the Artists and the ART
Gilbert Prousch, (born 17 September 1943 in San Martin de Tor, Italy), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth), are two artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George.
They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.
The artists celebrated their 50th anniversary in April 2023, Gilbert & George opened the Gilbert & George Centre in Heneage Street, London E1 to showcase their work in regular exhibitions and to secure their legacy.
The pair are perhaps best known for their large scale photo works, known as The Pictures.
The early work in this style is in black and white, later with hand-painted red and yellow touches.
They proceeded to use a range of bolder colours, sometimes backlit, and overlaid with black grids.
Their work has addressed a wide variety of subject matter including religion and patriotism. The two artists also often appear in their own "pictures". They, have described their "pictures" as a sort of "visual love letter from us to the viewer".
This maquette in their own inimitable style is a sort of "visual love letter from us to their viewers".
