The Secret Files of Gilbert & George (DVD) [USA]

Hans Ulrich Obrist

ISBN 10: 390577058X ISBN 13: 9783905770582

Verlag: Jpr, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

For the last 40 years Gilbert & George have united and divided the international art scene with equal parts insolence and elegance. Their oeuvre, with its repeating figures and reprising themes of shit, piss, blood, tears, nudity, sperm, alcohol and drugs, overturned the conventions of the twentieth century and helped to set the agenda for the twenty-first. This 35-minute film produced, hosted and edited by the influential international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is the first documentary to follow Gilbert & George inside their creative process, and into their archives and collection. Obrist discovers the couple's intimate life within the interior of their London house, a veritable museum of obsessions. Beyond good and bad, beyond appearances and objects (negatives, books, press cuttings... ), viewers are offered unprecedented insight into the artists' methods and the forms of thinking and categorizing that make up their philosophy on art and life. Gilbert & George met and began their collaboration in 1967 in London; in 1986 they won the Turner Prize; in 2005 they represented the U.K. at the Venice Biennale; from 2007 through 2009, a retrospective of their work will be touring major museums worldwide.

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Sinopsis:

For the last 40 years, Gilbert and George have spanned the international art scene with as much insolence as elegance. Real living sculptures, they have developed a repetitive language around recurrent figures and themes: shit, piss, blood, tears, nudity, sperm, alcohol, drugs. Theirs is an oeuvre that has radically overturned conventions and thinking of the period, and which refers literally to homosexuality, exclusion, social and religious violence. This DVD features an interview, filmed in 2000 by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for an exhibition at the Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and concentrates on the hysteria of the archive and the collection. Through this document, which does not fit into any distinct category (documentary, oeuvre, fiction) we discover the couple's intimate life, the interior of their London house, a veritable museum of obsessions. Beyond good and bad, appearances and things (negatives, books, press cuttings) we finally penetrate the material and method of these artists, their particular manner of thinking and categorising which is itself a philosophy on art and life. This is a multi region DVD with a running time of 35:00.

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• Verlag: Jpr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 390577058X
• ISBN 13: 9783905770582
• Einband: DVD