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Gilbert & George
Bleeding Medals
2008
118 7/8 x 174 13/16 in. (302 x 444 cm)
© the artist
Courtesy White Cube

Gilbert and George make bid for establishment status

The Britart duo Gilbert and George have built their reputations on producing some of the most outrageous and shocking artworks featuring nudity, images of sexual acts and using bodily fluids including urine and semen. But today, they insisted they were not ‘anti-establishment’ as they revealed their latest series of pictures in which they celebrate ‘Britishness’.

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