The Ten Commandments (Gilbert & George)

Gilbert and George - The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt fight conformism.
Thou shalt be the messenger of freedoms.
Thou shalt make use of sex.
Thou shalt reinvent life.
Thou shalt create artificial art.
Thou shalt have a sense of purpose.
Thou shalt not know exactly what thou dost, but thou shalt do it.
Thou shalt give thy love.
Thou shalt grab the soul.
Thou shalt give something back.

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition V

The Sweet Smell Of Excess

Thomas Banks - The Falling Giant, 1786

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) - La gran Julie, 1945

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Still Life With A Glass Under Lamplight, 1962

Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) - Raw War, 1970

Roy Lichtenstein - Bananas & Grapefruit #1, 1972

Gilbert and George (b. 1943 and 1942) - Son of God, 2005


'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'

Mick Jagger

The Gee Gees

Gilbert & George cutout dolls, 2000

Gilbert & George (South Park-style spoof by Helen Bucknail)

Gilbert & George ("The Little Artists")

Gilbert & George - Son of a God, 2005

Tim Marlow with Gilbert & George, 2007

'Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.'

Oscar Wilde

N.B. Gilbert & George will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Prize at the Florence Biennale in December.

Not Being There - Or, We Like To Be Watched

Gilbert and George (b, 1943 and 1942) - Spat On , 1996

"We don't have anything to say except with our pictures."

"We don't want to think. It's exhausting enough without that."

"We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought."

"We don't want to know what we're doing. It's much better not to know."

"A clergyman once said to us, 'Jealousy is a bad thing'. But I must confess that I am sometimes jealous of the artist because the artist is closer to creation."

Gilbert and George

The Week in Review

Viewing:

All About My Mother - d. Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
Bad Education - d. Pedro Almodóvar(2004)
Il Bidone - d. Federico Fellini (1955)
Heat - d. Michael Mann (1995)
The Insider - d. Michael Mann (2004)
Jezebel - d. William Wyler (1938)
Now, Voyager - d. Irving Rapper (1942)
Palindromes - d. Todd Solondz (2004)
Pickpocket - d. Robert Bresson (1959)
Thief - d. Michael Mann (1981)


Reading:

Dada and Surrealist Film - ed. Rudolph E. Kuenzli
Forces of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film - Linda Williams
From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema - Steven Kovacs
Surrealism and Film - J. H. Matthews


Listening:

Different Trains - Steve Reich (1990)
Desert Music - Steve Reich (1990)
The Cave - Steve Reich (1995)
Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich (2000)


Exhibitions:

Juan Davila - National Gallery of Victoria (International)