Gilbert&Georges. Jack Freak Pictures
Bilingual edition (NL/FR) Bozarbooks
Verkoopprijs : 18 euro
Softcover
174 blz
30 x 24 cm
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Bozar present 85 pictures from their latest and most elaborate group to date, in which they subvert the usual spirit of patriotism and commemorative zeal, and explore feelings of portent and anxiety as much as celebration and pride. The common element running throughout the group is the flag of the United Kingdom, as this flag’s historical and symbolic presence is the exhibition’s connecting theme. Moving beyond icons, Gilbert & George allow their motif to keep its own ambiguous rhetoric so they can create geometric abstract and figurative designs in red, blue and white to the maximum possible extent. These images examine the past, the present, and the future, their powerful iconography relentlessly exploring our human experience. They represent a summary of their art, a consolidation of the themes and feelings they have explored in their art through more than forty years: city life in all its fragility and severity, racial conflicts, sexuality, religion, scatology, etc.
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