TEX RUBINOWITZ
Born
in Hanover in 1961, living in Vienna since 1984. Studied under Oswald
Oberhuber at the University of Applied Art, but only for one week. Has
been drawing regularly for various newspapers since 1985, including
Falter, Der Standard, FAZ and Titanic. Numerous book publications.
Bandleader of the group
Mäuse.
BEND IT An exhibition on the role of music in the work of Gilbert & GeorgeBased on their obsession with the 1966 song
Bend It by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and the popular 1931 hit
Underneath the Arches by
Bud Flanagan, to which the two artists appeared as singing sculptures,
Tex Rubinowitz developed a musical reference system in oil on wood.
On
iconographic woodwormy votive tablets it is claimed that the two great
artists would also be interested in Elvis Presley, Gustav Mahler,
Madonna and the Sex Pistols. Here the wood plays the role of the
unglamorous, of the shabby fan, and the worms play the part of the
parasitic stalker who twists the image of his idols in the way he would
like to see it.
As well as this, TEX RUBINOWITZ shows pictures by three other artists he has commissioned to portray GILBERT & GEORGE:
SUSANNE KLOBASSA, born in Düsseldorf in 1957, lives and works in
Vienna. Trained as a cartoon film maker with Curt Linda in Munich.
Attended the German Masters School for Fashion in Munich and the
Hetzendorf Fashion School in Vienna. Has been a stylist and costume
designer for stage, film and photo productions.
HARUKO MAEDA,
born in Tokyo in 1983, lives and works in Linz. Took a degree in
painting at the Nihon University in Tokyo. Since 2005, degree course in
painting at the Linz University of Art.
MAX MÜLLER, born in
Wolfsburg in 1963, musician (Mutter, Tödliche Doris, Die Ärzte, Camping
Sex) and artist (Max Müller draws in the way he sings, with immediacy,
raw, but for all his manginess a gentle urge for love and justice shines
through his drawings…).
The following films by GILBERT & GEORGE will
be shown:
A Portrait of the
Artists as Young Men, 1970
Gordon’s Makes Us
Drunk, 1972
In the Bush, 1972
The World of Gilbert & George, 1981
The Singing
Sculpture, 1992
The Secret Files of Gilbert
& George, 2000
WOLF & RITTERSKAMP: Arts +
Crafts Spectacular #1, 2010
In this animation film the
artists Gilbert & George talk about their trip to the countryside with an
unexpected ending.
IAN
RITTERSKAMP, born in Düsseldorf in 1974 and SÉBASTIEN WOLF, born in Essen in
1976 both studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The artists live and work in Berlin. Arts + Crafts Spectacular #1 was shown at the 11th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, 2010.
