Brooklyn Museum Presents Retrospective of Work by Gilbert & George

The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George.

On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the Brooklyn presentation.

Gilbert and George met in 1967 while students at St. Martin's Art School in London.

They began to create art together, developing a uniquely recognizable style both in their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures.

Over the forty years they developed a new format that created large scale pictures, which are visually and emotionally powerful, through a unique creative process.

Most of their pictures are created in groups and made especially for the space in which they are first exhibited.

Since 1974 Gilbert and George have used their personal complex grid system to create their pictures, which are now developed with the use of sophisticated digital editing techniques.

In the early 1980s they began to introduce bold colors into their pictures, with one or more pictures in each group that were created on a monumental scale.

All pictures in a group share common motifs and conceptual and formal elements.