CSR.ART invites you to the exhibition opening with official book launch of the art book SUPERNATURAL BEINGS on 24 May 2024 at 7 pm. On display are expressively processed nude photographs by the artist duo GOTT&GILZ in a combination of photography and painting. The artists combine the genres of nude photography and painting in the form of an artistic ‘destruction’ of the original work and the interweaving of art historical quotations, thus creating new levels of meaning for the viewer to explore. Photographer Roman Gilz, who was voted one of the top 10 erotic photographers in Germany by art – Das Kunst Magazin in 2013, and painter Gott Gordan, who is credited with the ‘art of the drastic’, have formed the artist duo GOTT&GILZ since 2018. Their artworks provide an impetus to stimulate important discussions about gender roles, female body images and the right to sexual self-determination. Following the vernissage and book launch, the exhibition of the same name, which is being organised in collaboration with Berlin gallery Z22, can also be seen at CSR.ART at Friedrichstraße 69 until 8 June 2024.
The new publication of the art book SUPERNATURAL BEINGS thematises the female nude in a way that could provoke reflexive outrage at the explicitness of the images, if only there was this one level. However, GOTT&GILZ’s subtly provocative play with aesthetic conventions and taboos not only enriches the art scene, but also sparks …
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Image above: GOTT&GILZ, Supper, 2023, Fine Art Print on photo paper, acrylic, 90 × 60 cm