GILBERT & GEORGE

UTOPIAN PICTURES

Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore
January 19 - April 12, 2015


Opening | Monday | January 19, 2015 from 6 - 9 pm | at ARNDT Singapore


ARNDT is pleased to present the first exhibition of Gilbert & George in Singapore. Gilbert & George created 26 new artworks, the UTOPIAN PICTURES, for their first solo exhibition in Singapore and Southeast-Asia.

Since first meeting at St Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1967, Gilbert & George have dedicated their lives to creating art that communicates their vision of the world in a manner that is direct, immediate, open-handed, mysterious, confrontational, generous, dizzying, ghost-like, intensely realistic, visionary and profoundly moral.
With a many layered intensity of thoughts and a radically inventive visual creativity, the art of Gilbert & George has always directly addressed the feelings, prejudices and emotions of each individual viewer.
The twenty-six UTOPIAN PICTURES, exhibited for the first time in the iconic Gillman Barracks, convey the moral vision of Gilbert & George with monolithic and declamatory intensity. These pictures depict a modern world in which authority and the resentment of authority, rules and rebellion, advertising and public information, dogma and warning, boasts and threats co-exist in seemingly endless proclamations: in notices and signs, on the streets and on public transport, in historic royal emblems, stickers, posters and graffiti. Religion, politics, sex, crime and civic order are all represented – the myriad announcements combining to resemble a roaring visual Babel within the public spaces of the contemporary city.
Gilbert & George have always asserted that the modern human condition, in all its aspects, can be found revealed in the streets around their home and studio in East London. The texts and emblems contained in the UTOPIAN PICTURES provide further proof of this claim. Encountered by the artists in their daily walks around their neighbourhood, the many different signs depicted in these pictures – some attempting to exercise social control, others to assert civic disobedience – take their place within the art of Gilbert & George as a pre-existing visual language that is real and alive on the city streets. A highly inventive and original visual vocabulary embellishes the dense webs of personal, moral and ideological tension that these signs and slogans create. Possessing a universality of content, temper and meaning, they describe the social climate of modern urban life.
In seemingly simple, vivid primary colours, the figures of the artists often masked, hooded or obscured, yet always quietly and respectably be-suited, the UTOPIAN PICTURES convey the experience of an accelerated, violent, vertiginous, clamorous, technological, multi-faith and multi-cultural teeming city. It is within this very clamour – this dissonant roar of conflicting intentions and ideals – that we might in fact discern ‘Utopia’: a society describing perfection through its allowance of imperfection and disorder.

Michael Bracewell

 

ARNDT Singapore
Gillman Barracks
9 Lock Road #03-21
Singapore 108937
Tel. +65 67340775

 

WORK LIST | Please click here to see the complete list of works

 

VIDEOS
VIDEO I | LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS in conversation with Gilbert & George

VIDEO II | TONY ELLWOOD in conversation with G & G on the occasion of ART IN MOTION Artweek Singapore

 

PRESS
MONOPOL - January,  2015
HARPER'S ART BAZAAR - December, 2014
THE STRAITS TIME - January, 2015
ARTSY - February, 2015

 

MERCHANDISING PRODUCTS | UTOPIAN PICTURES by Gilbert & George

Poster: Poster panel format, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015  Poster: Poster panel format, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015
Poster: Poster wide format, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015  Poster: Poster wide format, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015
Catalogue: Catalogue, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015  Catalogue: Catalogue, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015
Bag: Tote bag, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015  Bag: Tote bag, Gilbert & George UTOPIAN PICTURES, 2015

UTOPIAN PICTURES merchandising products by Gilbert and George

Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015
Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015 Installation view | GILBERT & GEORGE | UTOPIAN PICTURES | Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore | January 19 - April 5, 2015

SPECIAL EVENTS
GILBERT & GEORGE BOOK-SIGNING | ART STAGE SINGAPORE

A catalogue documenting the UTOPIAN PICTURES will accompany the exhibition at ARNDT Singapore.
Meet the artists at ART STAGE SINGAPORE for the book signing of UTOPIAN PICTURES.

When: Wednesday 21.01.2015 from 4 - 6 pm | Booth E13
Venue: Marina Bay Sands Convention Center | 10 Bayfront Avenue | Singapore 018956

LASALLE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES | IN CONVERSATION WITH GILBERT & GEORGE
For the first time in Singapore, Gilbert & George will discuss and share insights into their art and life. Audiences will have the unique opportunity to hear from these media shy artists first hand, and meet them in person. The session will be hosted by British novelist Michael Bracewell.

When: Thursday 22.01.2015 from 7 – 9:30 pm (including refreshments)
Venue: The Singapore Airlines Theatre | LASALLE College of the Arts (Basement) | 1 McNally Street | Singapore 187940

Free admission but pre-booking is required. Please reserve your seat at https://www.eventbrite.sg/

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