This catalogue, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the gallery from November 27, 2009 to January 23, 2010, presents the latest works created by the artists between 2007 and 2009, as part of a unique universe : Wonderful Town…
 
“Wonderful Town is one of those towns you can find anywhere in the world… It’s a modern town with no past, an industrial town”. To escape from the harshness of reality, city-dwellers feel the need to invent dreams, fantasies and acts of folly…In this decor of worksite machinery, factories, rubbish, all the people here have to invent their own world. A bit like in a film, Wonderful Town is an imaginary world where a lot of things happen, happy or sad, gentle or violent”
 
Inspired by cinema more than ever, Pierre et Gilles found a fantastic freedom for creation in this new world which allows them to tackle all themes and characters, and consider all composition types. In this universe with numerous facets, cheerful marines rub shoulders with saint martyrs, wonderful comes out of suffering and difficulty…
 
Thus Wonderful Town reflects Pierre et Gilles’ creations eclecticism in a perfect way, and unveils the mastery they have acquired in their specific style, allowing us to see more and more complex scenes with pictural decors.

Bilingual French-English text by Jean Louis Froment. Original drawings by the artists.

Published on the occasion of Pierre et Gilles’ personal exhibition at the gallery, Un monde parfait, right before their important retrospective at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris (summer 2007), this catalogue presents the whole of the artists’ creations between 2004 and 2006.
The 26 illustrated works invite us to a journey into Pierre et Gilles’ idealized world with no taboo, through religious, mythological and erotic images, by their contemporary and tolerant vision of the conflicts dividing our world, like in Irak war  or in David et Jonathan.

Bilingual French-English text by Paul Ardenne. All works illustrated without and with their frame. Biography. List of the personal and group exhibitions and a complete monograph.

Conceived by the artists on the occasion of their exhibition Le Grand Amour (The Great Love) by the fall 2004 at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, this catalogue includes most of Pierre et Gilles’ works created from 2001 through 2004, with smiling portraits, these of children, of religious topics, or like their self-portrait as clowns, and also with darker visions, of slaves, of lost-around sailor, or like those inspired by The Black Dahlia.
Jean-Jacques Aillagon, by then French Minister of Culture, and Eric Troncy, art critic and curator, have written two very personal and relevant essays about Pierre et Gilles’ work and world, focusing on their latest works. The art critic Frédéric Blanc, as for him, especially focuses on the series Exil Intérieur, that shows a subtle turning point in the work of the artists.
Along its 120 colour pages, the reader will have the pleasure to discover that the wide field open by Le Grand Amour invites to an imaginative journey, a fantasy, a thought…

Bilingual French & English catalogue. Texts by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Eric Troncy and Frédéric Blanc. Biography. Literature. List of personal and group exhibitions.

Print on the occasion of the exhibition Le Grand Amour (The Great Love), this luxurious edition is proposed to you, with an admirable quality of reproduction, on a thick paper, and with the texts written in a glittering gold.
Each copy of this genuine small art edition is signed and numbered by Pierre et Gilles. It is thus for sure a perfect present for all amateurs.

Limited edition of 500, numbered from 1/500 to 500/500 and signed by the artists.
Printed with a four-color process and hot bronze.

Entirely realized by the artists, and rich of more than 540 colour illustrations, this book is like a wide and coloured family album, illustrating almost all works created by Pierre et Gilles between 1976 and 2002.
As an image album, the colour illustrations, from small-sized to full-page ones, offer us a large panorama of the specific work of this painter/photographer couple, and make us discover its diversity through the numerous evoked themes.

This essential catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Pierre & Gilles – Arrache mon cœur held at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris, and then at the KunstHaus Wien in Vienna, by end 2001 – early 2002, celebrating 25 years of artistic collaboration.
Conceived by the artists themselves, this magnificent catalogue includes the catalogue raisonné of their works from 1999 to 2001, revealing their unlasting and passionate creativity.

An exclusive conversation between Jérôme Sans, by then co-Director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the artists highlights some topics never discussed before in Pierre et Gilles’ work. Joram Harel, by then Director of the KusntHaus Wien, has him written the foreword.

Tri-lingual French-English-German text. Foreword by Joram Harel. Interview of the artists by Jérôme Sans. Catalogue raisonné 1999/2001. Biography. Literature. List of personal and group exhibitions. Filmography.

Print on the occasion of the exhibition  Pierre & Gilles – Arrache mon cœur held at the Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery in Paris (November, 2001 - January, 2002) , and then at the KunstHaus Wien in Vienna (February-May 2002).

The work Mercure, 2001 (Model: Enzo Junior) illustrated here is a symbolic work of the mythological portraits of the French duet and now made ​​in a particular poster for the exhibition Masculin / Masculin (Male / male) at the Orsay Museum in Paris, from September 24th, 2013 till January 2nd, 2014.

Print on the occasion of the exhibition  Pierre & Gilles – Arrache mon cœur held at the Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery in Paris (November, 2001 - January, 2002) , and then at the KunstHaus Wien in Vienna (February-May 2002).

The work Mercure, 2001 (Model: Enzo Junior) illustrated here is a symbolic work of the mythological portraits of the French duet and now made ​​in a particular poster for the exhibition Masculin / Masculin (Male / male) at the Orsay Museum in Paris, from September 24th, 2013 till January 2nd, 2014.

This catalogue, today a collector, was created in close collaboration with the artists. Enriched with original drawings by Pierre et Gilles, it is illustrated with more than 40 full-page illustrations of works created in 1997 and 1998, including notably their series in black and white, La Rose et le Couteau (The Rose and the Knife) , which immerses us back into the France of the 1940’s.
You will also find a panorama of works very representative of Pierre & Gilles’ art: self-portraits, celebrities’ portraits, and works on the theme of the sea and of the darkness…

Bilingual French & English text, The Double Life of Pierre & Gilles, by Catherine Francblin, President of the French Art Critic Association. Original drawings by the artists.