GILBERT & GEORGE. The Ten Commandments for Gilbert & - Lot 163

GILBERT & GEORGE. The Ten Commandments for Gilbert & George. Paris, Jannink, “L’Art en écrit” series, 1995. Narrow 8vo, pink cover with flaps, publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Unpaginated (48 pages). First edition featuring a silkscreen print numbered and signed by the artists. Limited edition of 314 numbered copies on Neige paper (no. 24). "From their very first end-of-year exhibition at St. Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, Gilbert (Prousch, born in 1943 in the Dolomites, Italy) and George (Passmore, born in 1942 in Devon, England) went against the artistic norms of the time. Serving as both the subjects and objects of their art, the two artists have since regarded themselves as a single artistic entity and have devoted their lives to their art, eliminating all superfluous concerns and immersing themselves in a discipline as rigorous as it is creative, while allowing themselves the utmost madness. Beginning in the early 1970s, Gilbert & George created art on a large, even colossal scale depicting the present and future world. True living sculptures, they developed a repetitive language centered on recurring figures and motifs: shit, piss, blood, tears, nudity, semen, alcohol, and drugs. A body of work that radically challenges conventions and the political correctness of the time, and that literally addresses homosexuality, exclusion, and social and religious violence.” (publisher’s website) In perfect condition, complete with the insert on a fuchsia-colored sheet of the same size.