The World of Gilbert and George - ACE113.2

Credits. Christ Church, Spitalfields, London; 360° view of London skyline. Gilbert, George. Rooftops: George Passmore’s VO recites "Misery for all. Here the struggled punished Nature masks the hands of Man’s three hundred years of crude loving desperate commerce …"; Gilbert Proesch’s VO continues: "… there are no ghosts." Gilbert and George with VOs saying the Lord’s Prayer. Various images of Christ Church, roofs, trees, plate of food, rubble, Peace Descending on the Quadriga of War on Wellington Arch, chimney of Tate Gallery, etc. Prayer repeated over close-ups of details of their faces. Fournier Street house interior – wood panelled room. Gilbert says "I believe in the art, the beauty and the life of the artist who is an eccentric person with something to say for himself … Beauty is my art." George repeats the same.