Gilbert (San Martino in Badia, 1943) and George (Plymouth, 1942). They live and work in London.

Gilbert & George met each other at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London and soon moved to live and create together in Spitalfields, East End of London.

Art for all: this slogan, used since the origins of their existential-artistic association, best summarizes the logic that underlies the artistic activity of Gilbert & George. The final goal of their art is, since the very beginning, to create a strongly communicative andthought-provoking art, which aims to overcome the traditional barriers between art and life and to analyse in deep the human conditions. The artistic representation must not exclude any aspect of the human condition and must necessarily have an educational function, reason why a personal investment from the artist’s side is a necessary condition of art. At the beginning of the seventies their art are composed of small black and white images, set up according to figurative schemes. In the mid-seventies they adopted the orthogonal grid scheme in their picture compositions. After the black and white and the privileged use of red, from the eighties Gilbert & George opened to colour and at the same time increased the dimensional scale of their pictures, which gradually took on the aspect of monumental image frescoes, composed of multi panels assembled to compose the final image.