About this artwork
This is one of Gilbert & George's multi-part photographic works. It consists of self-portraits of the artists, with Gilbert above and George below. The child-like drawings are purposefully clumsy, a feature that is exaggerated by their huge magnification and adds to their irony since they are clearly not the work of a child. The photographs are printed on yellow-tinted paper which tends to distance the viewer and emphasises the artificial and contrived procedure with which the piece is made, each photograph being enlarged, printed and framed individually.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Exhausted
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date created:1980
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materials:Sixteen-part photographic work (each part dyed and framed)
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measurements:Assembled: 242.00 x 202.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1982
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accession number:GMA 2507
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George
Italian-born Gilbert Proesch and Englishman George Passmore met and studied at St Martin's School of Art in London in 1967 and have made only collaborative works since then. In 1969 they performed the first of several 'living sculptures', which rapidly launched their international careers as...