Gilbert & George

Hong Kong

White Cube Hong Kong presents its inaugural exhibition ‚London Pictures‘ by Gilbert & George. This monumental body of 292 pictures is the largest series yet created by the acclaimed British artists. 22 pictures will be shown in Hong Kong which will be the first venue on a global tour.

For five decades, to international acclaim, Gilbert & George have been making art that is visionary, shocking, relentless, moral and richly atmospheric.

In these new ‚London Pictures‘ (2011) Gilbert & George present an epic survey of modern urban life in all its volatility, tragedy, absurdity and routine violence. Brutal and declamatory, these brooding and disquieting pictures have been created from the sorting and classification by subject of nearly 4000 newspaper headline posters, stolen by the artists over a number of years.

Drawing directly on the quotidian life of a vast city, the ‚London Pictures‘ allow contemporary society to recount itself in its own language. Within the townscape of this moral audit, Gilbert & George appear to pass like ghosts and seers, alternately watchful and distracted, as though their spirits were haunting the very streets and buildings that these pictures describe. The ‚London Pictures‘ seem to comprise a great visual novel, revealing without judgment the ceaseless relay of urban drama, in all its gradations of hope and suffering.

White Cube Hong Kong

March 2nd – May 5th, 2012
50 Connaught Road Central
Hong Kong
China

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