“To follow love, is to start out on a road that leaves us more vulnerable and more real, love causes us to forget ourselves and trust to its mysteries.” Pierre et Gilles
From September 24 to the November 18, Pierre et Gilles will present their new works in an exhibition entitled Le Grand Amour. More than ever love remains the artists’ main leitmotiv. Under the half-angelic, half-demonic gaze of the young “Amour taillant son arc” (Love carving his bow), Love is present in most of the works on display.
The passionate love of a couple as unconventional as Marilyn Manson and Dita von Teese in Le Grand Amour (The Great Love); divine love in La Révélation; the male desire of the Dark Room’s visitor; the love of freedom in L’Aveu (The Admission)... Each work by Pierre et Gilles, more than just a portrait, is a history, a scenario, a story in embryo. Their works have a cinematic quality because they tell stories, inventing a type of instant narrative based on a wealth of detail and sophistication never lacking in poetry. This cinematic art is more than ever at the center of their art as shown by the works they produced with Dita von Teese, in which she slips into the skin of James Elroy’s Dahlia Noir (The Black Dahlia) or with L’escale (The Stopover) which combines in two pictures the improbable meeting between the “Blue Angel” and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. And it does this without hinting at the thunderous irruption of such strong personalities through their singularity, their exuberance and their very life, already heroes of the cinema.
Mehr bei: Galerie Jerome De Noirmont
