London

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street

Described by the artists as a 'postcard sculpture', this collage depicts iconic London landmarks seen from different perspectives. Incorporating vintage postcards, it recalls early twentieth-century Dadaist photomontages. In the 1970s photography became Gilbert and George's favourite medium, including 'photo sculptures', arrangements of images in grids, an idiosyncratic device of their work. Often controversial, their subjects include race, religion, sex and death - universal themes they wish to highlight in their art.

Places

England, Windsor Castle, Windsor, River Thames, London, Royal Courts of Justice, King's Cross Railway Station, Tower of London, Westminster Bridge, Westminster Abbey, Palace of Westminster, Thames Embankment, Parliament Square, Fleet Street, Admiralty Arch, Tower Bridge, Westminster

Subjects

train, postcard, travel & tourism, townscape/cityscape, river, street, bridge (urban), government building, palace, castle, tower, steamboat

Materials & Techniques

postcards, paper (as artists material), collage

Artist

Gilbert and George (1943, 1942 - )

Title

London

Date

1980

Medium

Collage of postcards on paper

Dimensions

width: 111.70 cm, height: 81.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Hirschl and Adler Modern, July 2005

Inscription

on label lr: LONDON / A Post-Card Sculpture / by / Gilbert and George / 1980

Provenance

Hirschl and Adler Modern

GAC number

18029