Gilbert and George
Gilbert Prousche and George Passmore are two
artists, known together as "Gilbert and George". Gilbert was born in
Italy and studied art before moving to England. George was born and raised in
Plymouth in the UK by his poor single mother. They both met at Saint Martin's
school of Art where it was "love at first sight."
Gilbert and George are known for being rather
anti-religious; “When we walk to dinner, we pass churches that also have
opinions, like the one that says, The bloody death of Jesus was for you. That's
quite aggressive, no? Or the worst one, the really horrible one, is ‘I am the
way.’ That's horrific, isn' it? Just one person is the only way in life? It's
like Hitler.” said George
Some of their work often looks like a stained glass window, such as this piece which was infact made of glass. Not only is it considered blasphemous to put ones self on a stained glass window, but they have also referenced hinduism with the font of the blue writing and the pair of hands at the bottom.
“It’s all religion in the end – that’s the big problem. Inventing evil and
sin, and limbo, and hell and purgatory… just to terrorise us forever. Mortal
sin? Living with sin? Extraordinary stuff. We don’t believe you have to be
religious to behave yourself. We have to sort out a system for ourselves,
because religion is something untouchable – a god that invented god to
terrorise you.” protests Gilbert
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