Pierre et gilles biography of michael

French artists

Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, also known as Pierre et Gilles, are French artists and romantic partners.

They have been producing works together since 1976, creating a world where painting and photography meet.

Pierre et gilles biography of michael

Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.^[1]

Pierre et Gilles have sometimes attracted controversy.

For example, in 2012 there was a public outcry in Austria wh