Footnote:
Catalog of an exhibition held at White Cube Gallery, Spring 2021
Description:
Since meeting as students in the late summer of 1967, Gilbert & George have been travelling together on a visionary and moral journey that they liken to John Bunyan?s The Pilgrim?s Progress. Their journey is made on foot, along the endless streets of London; occasionally by bus to the city's eastern edges. It encompasses new-build developments on reclaimed and reworked land; excursions into a not-too-distant future, as disquietingly mild as it is lowering.00Gilbert & George?s NEW NORMAL PICTURES have the air, also, of temperate yet strangely intense days. In fact, the stages on a journey they seem to recount have a "post-everything" air; as though they have just crossed through a fissure in time to a place that is almost but not quite familiar, a place that looks normal but is not normal, is skewed, perhaps abandoned. Exhibition: White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK (02.03. ? 08.05.2021)