Gilbert & George

Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore are a collaborative art duo known for their eccentric, yet highly formal appearance and manner in their performative, graphic/photo-based works. From an art education based in Austria and Germany, Peroesch moved to England where he met Passmore, also with an art education, claiming that it was 'love at first sight'.

Gilbert & George

The Singing Sculpture

1973

The Singing Sculpture is known best as their launching artwork. As the duo dressed in suits with their heads and hands painted with metallic-bronze coloured powders, and a table as their plinth, they sung along to two songs, one of them being 'Underneath the Arches', whilst making mechanical gestures as if they were in a music box.