Four Views / Urethra Postcard Pieces

Basic theme in the work of Gilbert and George, the mannered pseudo gentlemen, is the value system of social standards, the meticulous british order and the symbols of english manners. In their postcard-works, Gilbert and George group picture postcards to strict patterns, each with 13 cards of the same subject, views of London, the Union Jack, Big Ben. They are the essence of the British self-image, made to be flushed out into the world - the "urethra pieces".