Billboard Project | Gilbert & George
Arte Institute supports “Billboard Project” created and developed by P28 in association with Sonnabend Foundation.
Billboard Project | Gilbert & George
Lisbon, Belém
November 28
BILLBOARD-PROJECT FEATURES SEVEN ESTABLISHED ARTISTS IN LISBON, OPORTO AND FARO
Billboard it’s a Contemporary Urban Art project, created and developed by P28 in association with Sonnabend Foundation and Travessa da Ermida, having as goal the publicity supports manipulation aimed to be targets of contemporary art manifestations.
This concept is born from the necessity of restoring and give life to this same supports, in their genesis conceived to several purposes – for instance, political publicity and propaganda – re-orienting/ subverting its original intention by profiting from its enormous potentialities as mass communication support.
This project, put in practice under unlimited time, aims the usage of this exterior marketing means, modular placards placed in great visibility spaces, as for instance next to road works or on the cities’ big buildings gables.
JEFF KOONS, GILBERT&GEORGE, CLIFFORD ROSS AND OTHERS BRING ORIGINAL
WORKS TO PORTUGAL
About Gilbert & George
Gilbert was born in 1943 in the Italian Dolomites. George was born in 1942 in Devon, England. Gilbert and George met while students at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1967 and have lived and worked together in this same city since 1968. Moving to the working-class neighbourhood of Spitalfields in London, Gilbert and George revolted against art’s elitism, declaring their work as part of “Art for All” and themselves “living sculptures.” The artists used drawing, video and photography in their works. As early as 1969, the artists were given an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and by 1972–73 were frequently showing with prestigious galleries such as Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, and later the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London . Their use of black-and-white photographic assemblages first surfaced in 1971 and by the late 1970s had developed into grid like photo combinations.
About P28
Explores the relationship between the city , spaces ” non-places” and culture. Promotes the artistic development in its tracks, rehabilitates mentality and bet in an action of social responsibility directed to mental illness. The P28 is also artist, someone who defends a unique position and critical , confronting what we are abroad.P28 acts as an intermediary between the artist and the public , gathering and making available spaces for artistic encounters and consequently sharing.
