SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

GOTT&GILZ – A monograph

With SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, the DCV Verlag dedicates an extensive monograph to the artist duo GOTT&GILZ, documenting their artistic work since 2018.

On 202 pages, a visual world unfolds between photography, painting, and collage. The works draw on historical artistic traditions, quote and deconstruct familiar forms of representation, and place them in a contemporary context.

At the heart of the exhibition is the female body as the subject of artistic representation and social projection. The discussion of the male gaze, changing moral concepts, and the right to sexual self-determination runs through the various series of works.

References to artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Jackson Pollock illustrate the dialogue with art history. It is less about overcoming historical models than about the question of how their pictorial languages and the associated conceptions of corporeality are read today.

SUPERNATURAL BEINGS combines these different artistic positions into a unified whole and provides insight into the development of a collaboration characterized by a spirit of experimentation, visual exaggeration, and a conscious approach to societal conventions.

BOOK DETAILS

DCV Verlag · 2024
Hardcover · 202 pages
163 illustrations 24 × 33 cm
German / English
Text: Karina Chernenko
Design: Gilz-Art UG
ISBN 978-3-96912-185-6