Post what you get this year guys….

For those in NYC -- www.visualaids.org/projects/detail/postcards

They hold this same type of event every Jan. Basically they tap 1400 artists to submit a postcard and allow people to buy them for $80 each. Artist are revealed after purchase, and you actually buy art that you like as opposed to names that you like.

I went to the preview this year and a lot of the artists were there as well. Most of them mentioned that they specifically made postcards that did not represent their style so that people wouldn't pick those cards just because.

Awesome charity as well -- and a really cool event.

Show at the white cube gallery.

18th July to 26th September.

Interesting interview with then on tonight's Front Row on radio 4. Catch it on Listen Again.

From white cube gallery website:

North Galleries and South Galleries, Bermondsey

‘Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth’
Oscar Wilde (1891)

For nearly five decades the art of Gilbert & George has created a visceral and epic depiction of modern urban existence. At its centre are always the artists themselves, who have dedicated their adult lives to their calling as ‘Living Sculptures’ – witness participants within the moral and vividly atmospheric world of their vision, as it is revealed in their art.

The ‘SCAPEGOATING PICTURES’ unflinchingly describe the volatile, tense, accelerated and mysterious reality of our increasingly technological, multi-faith and multi-cultural world. It is a world in which paranoia, fundamentalism, surveillance, religion, accusation and victimhood become moral shades of the city’s temper. Gilbert & George take their place in these ‘SCAPEGOATING PICTURES’ as shattered and spirit-like forms – at times masked, at times as grotesquely capering skeletons, at times dead-eyed and impassive. These ‘SCAPEGOATING PICTURES’ consolidate and advance the art of Gilbert & George as a view of modern humanity that is at once libertarian and free-thinking, opposed to bigotry of all forms and dedicated to secular realism.

Dominating the SCAPEGOATING PICTURES, becoming almost the imagistic signature of this new group of pictures, are images of the sinister bomb shaped canisters used to contain nitrous oxide, also known as ‘whippets’ and ‘hippy crack’ — recreationally inhaled to induce euphoria, hallucinations and uncontrollable laughter. Gathered by the artists on their early morning walks from the side streets and back alleys that surround their home, the presence of these canisters, mimicking that of ‘bombs’ pervades the mood of the SCAPEGOATING PICTURES to infer terrorism, warfare and a stark industrial brutality.

Echoing the maxim of the great Victorian architect, A.W.N. Pugin, ‘Not a Style, but a Principle’, the vision of the SCAPEGOATING PICTURES both affirms and intensifies the historically iconic art of Gilbert & George, in its tireless, emotional and profound engagement with the viewer and the modern world.

Just popped in on the way to work and I loved it. Some good value stuff in the shop too. They've got a book for £10 and five different signed posters - Glee, Bigot, Zeal, Glad and Poppers - for £10 each, or all five for £30. Managed to grab a full set, but there weren't many left. According to the shop manager G&G signed around 800 and there were 1500 at the private view who grabbed most of them.

I bought a set a while ago.  A no brainer, really.


G&G were also selling sets of 5 showprints for £30 at their Tate Modern retrospective back in 2007.  

Hi,

Anyone has any Nettle Dance available?

Best,

Pascal

Sold out online! Thanks for heads up though.

Trying to work out which one I like the most - 'F**k the Planet' seems the most appropriate right now

only lady Codiva carn't go wrong

They're certainly childish 

White Cube's shop says a lot about that part of the art world; that they can charge top dollar for some pretty pointless art.

http://instagram.com/p/_hL0J-uuAV

Good show.