GILBERT & GEORGE , JACK FREAK PICTURES

until saturday july 25 2009
Opening in the presence of the artists on Saturday, June 20th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
T : +33 (0)1 42 72 99 00
7, rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
France

Contact presse
Alessandra Bellavita
alessandra@ropac.net
www.ropac.net/

In the Jack Freak Pictures Gilbert & George continue to portray life and the cityscape as experienced by the archetypal modern man and to delineate the morals of human existence, from the profound to the rudimentary.
As in all of their art, the artists themselves are again protagonists; vehicles to hint at future contemporary life, both from a spiritual and material point of view. They are depicted expressionless and ʻexpressionfulʼ as the embodiment of normality, in perpetual progression towards an inevitable fate, perhaps simply a commentary on manʼs mortality.

The title of the Jack Freak Pictures possibly refers to the provocative and heady existence that modern man is subject to, at once vulnerable to the uncertainties ingrained in modern society as well as the progressive fusion of the ideas of national and personal identity. The
prevailing interpretation of the Union flag is inverted when juxtaposed with the word freak, generally associated with social ostracism.