Gilbert & George.(British artists)(Brief Article)

Marco Livingstone recounts the events early in the career of the British duo that led to art dealer Konrad Fischer's invitation to show at his Dusseldorf gallery in 1970.

GILBERT & GEORGE hadn't been working together more than a few months before they started to make their own luck in late 1968. They had met only a year earlier when Gilbert, fresh from the Munchen Akademie and speaking no English, arrived in the Advanced Sculpture Course at St. Martin's School of Art in London, where George was entering his third and final year. When Gilbert returned to London the following ...

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