The BBC (and Guardian) are hosting a multi-page, printable Gilbert & George work for the next 48 hrs.
Fab – I love Gilbert & George – there was an amazing retrospective of their work in the Tate Modern…and it was amazing to see their development over the last 40 years.
It was everything art should be – visually arresting, funny, poignant, uncomfortable, different, and all those other metaphors I can’t be arsed (whoops…no pun intended :-) to come up with this late.
It’s kind of brilliant for them to make a piece of art that ultimately, everyone who downloads it will be involved in the final assembly.
Even better, here’s a video of the work being created – check out G&G busting out PhotoShop on their 30inch Apple monitor and signing it with a pressure Wacom tablet…
I shouldn’t be tickled by this – they’re using entirely appropriate tools for their medium. It’s just the whole symmetry with Warhol’s production methods, and the fact that a G&G ‘original’ costs lots of cash – how do they ensure a work’s singularity? Does it matter?
How wonderfully subversive if they released the layered Photoshop files? :-)
Anyway, this looks like a fun weekend project – now I just need 9 black frames :-)