Gilbert & George Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

From the Huguenots in the seventeenth century, Irish silk weavers in the late 1700s and East European Jews at the turn of the twentieth century through to recent immigrants from South-east Asia, East London has been shaped by a multicultural reality closely linked to a unique spirit of creative enterprise. Over the last thirty years in particular, the area has been transformed from a crumbling no-go area on the fringe of the nation's capital into a cluster of hip neighbourhoods buzzing with creative energy where a wide range of communities have come together. Voices East London connects the dots around the creative perspectives that make the area unique while providing colourful glimpses into its past by means of dynamic interviews with eighty of the area's leading movers and shakers. Among them are such artists, designers and cultural leaders as Gilbert & George, Sue Webster, Langlands & Bell, Charles Saumarez Smith, Iwona Blazwick, Maureen Paley, Viktor Wynd, Sandra Esquilant, David Waddington and Pablo Flack. Brimming with striking new photography and engaging insights into a distinctive milieu, Voices East London demonstrates that the area has well and truly moved beyond its old Dickensian aura.

Was verbindet Presse und Bildende Kunst? Wie beeinflusst die Zeitung unsere Gesellschaft? Wie gehen Künstler mit diesem Medium um? Und welche gegenseitige Einflussname existiert zwischen Kunst und Zeitung? Auf diese spannenden Fragen gibt der opulente Band „Art and Press“ ausführliche Antworten. Bildreich und detailgenau beleuchtet der Katalog die faszinierenden Positionen von namhaften Gegenwartskünstlern wie Christian Boltanski, Andreas Gursky, Eberhard Havekost, Anselm Kiefer, Barbara Kruger, Rirkrit Tiranvanija, Daniel Richter, Gerhard Richter, Franz West und vielen anderen. Ein historischer Überblick bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert – zu sehen sind Werke von Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann und anderen – rundet das bis heute aktuelle Thema gelungen ab.

The candid, revealing inside story of one of the great and most original art acts of our the enigmatic living sculptures based in Spitalfields in Londons East End.Gilbert and George are unquestionably among the most important and original artists of our time. Critics have come to recognise the artists vision and to regard some of their works as among the major pictures of the century.Gilbert (from the Italian Dolomites) and George (from Totnes) met at St Martins School of Art in the late 1960s and formed an immediate friendship. This is an engagingly informal portrait in which they reminisce about their family upbringing, their friendship, life in Spitalfields, and their relish of the mixed cultures of the East End. With their distinctive trademark single-breasted, three-button suits and their famously studied but courteous composure, Gilbert and George set out as artists without a gallery. From living, and singing, sculptures, they developed a line in controversial subject matter that extends from the Dirty Words Pictures to The Naked Shit and The Fundamental pictures. As exponents of photo-based art, they are, as writer David Sylvester has remarked, perhaps second only to Andy Warhol.

English, French

With text by Rudi Fuchs and Wojciech Markowski.