Since meeting at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, GILBERT & GEORGE (Bolzano, Italy, 1943; Devon, Great Britain, 1942) have lived and worked together, considering themselves to be a single artist separated into two people.

Beginning in the early 1970s, the two artists have made forms of art that tended to identify artistic activity and everyday life, also using their own bodies as an art material.

Their early works consisted of photographic books, engravings or cards sent to friends and acquaintances and bearing writings and traces of their existence, or performances called Living or Singing Sculptures. In the latter works, the two artists, faces and hands covered with bronze or gold powder, stood on a table, singing old English songs and making robotic movements.