GILBERT & GEORGE: THE PARADISICAL PICTURES
NOVEMBER 16, 2019–JANUARY 20, 2020
SPRÜTH MAGERS, LOS ANGELES
5900 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES, CA 90036
OPENING RECEPTION:
NOVEMBER 15 6–8 PM
Gilbert & George have created art together as one visionary, artistic entity since 1967, when they met at Saint Martins School of Art in London. Recognized by institutions and collections worldwide for their groundbreaking, fiercely independent and influential art across diverse mediums, they continue to produce confrontational, richly emotive and thought-provoking art that, more than fifty years later, pushes into ever-new territory. Sprüth Magers is honored to début Gilbert & George’s PARADISICAL PICTURES, a new group of thirty-five major pictures that mark the artists’ first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in nearly two decades. In these dense, richly colored vistas, references emanate from disparate eras of cultural history, including nineteenth-century Romanticism and the pop milieu of science fiction and comic books. No object is necessarily as it seems in the PARADISICAL PICTURES’ strange, mind-altering scenes.
