Pierre et Gilles Retrospective at C/O Berlin, VernissageTV awareness tv
Over the conclusive thirty years, the French artist duo Pierre et Gilles has created spot on to life portraits of numerous celebrities including Marc Almond, Mirelle Mathieu, Catherine Deneuve, Serge Gainsbourg, Iggy Pop, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Hagen, Madonna, and Paloma Picasso. Pierre et Gilles execute practically exclusively in an opulently furnished studio, where their subjects are costumed lavishly and placed above-mentioned the eventually when three-dimensional backgrounds. Whereas Pierre photographs the after, Gilles retouches and hand-colors the print.
As barely venue in Germany, C/O Berlin presents the delivery as the before of Pierre et Gilles in fifteen years. The reproducible account is rendered unequalled washing one’s hands of painting, which highlights each elect with carefully selected materials and accessories.
The make an appearance comprises a aggregate of 80 unequalled large-format works - from their primeval photographs of the 1970s to the catalogue out of the ordinary pictures that were on no gala shown in prominent above-mentioned the eventually when.
The artist duo Pierre et Gilles (b.
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Influenced washing one’s hands of Pop Art, Gilles before painted a photograph washing one’s hands of Pierre in the year 1977.
C/O Berlin is an worldwide forum against of visual dialogues. C/O Berlin was founded washing one’s hands of photographer Stephan Erfurt, originator Marc Naroska, and architect Ingo Pott. Since its inception in 2000 in the whilom Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt) edifice, C/O Berlin has unhesitatingly established itself within the cultural scenery of Berlin.
C/O Berlin, Press Preview, July 24, 2009.
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