About The Work
These works continue Gilbert & George’s long-standing engagement with commercially manufactured images and texts including picture postcards, telephone box cards, flyers and newspapers. Gilbert & George have particularly used the postcard as a medium in their early career.
The composition of these works—a continuous rectangle of cards, with a single card in its central space—mimics the symbol of "an angulated version of the sign of urethra" used by the one-time theosophist C. W. Leadbetter (1853 - 1934) to accompany his signature.
Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin
About Gilbert & George
From The Magazine
- Art 101: 8 More Essential Self-Portraits You Need to Know Now
- Interviews & Features: Collector Alain Servais on Insider Trading in the Art Market, “Blood-Sucking Leeches,” and Why We're Now Just the Fashion Industry
- Interviews & Features: Collector Alain Servais on Why the Venice Biennale Is the World's Best Art Fair
- Art 101: A Brief History of Art Basel, the World's Premier Contemporary Fair
- Art 101: The Art Lovers: Power Couples of the Art World
Mixed media
34.65 x 48.43 in
88.0 x 123.0 cm
Comes with a box custom designed by Gilbert & George's technicians.
About The Work
These works continue Gilbert & George’s long-standing engagement with commercially manufactured images and texts including picture postcards, telephone box cards, flyers and newspapers. Gilbert & George have particularly used the postcard as a medium in their early career.
The composition of these works—a continuous rectangle of cards, with a single card in its central space—mimics the symbol of "an angulated version of the sign of urethra" used by the one-time theosophist C. W. Leadbetter (1853 - 1934) to accompany his signature.
Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin
About Gilbert & George
From The Magazine
- Art 101: 8 More Essential Self-Portraits You Need to Know Now
- Interviews & Features: Collector Alain Servais on Insider Trading in the Art Market, “Blood-Sucking Leeches,” and Why We're Now Just the Fashion Industry
- Interviews & Features: Collector Alain Servais on Why the Venice Biennale Is the World's Best Art Fair
- Art 101: A Brief History of Art Basel, the World's Premier Contemporary Fair
- Art 101: The Art Lovers: Power Couples of the Art World
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