Spunk on Blood

"Magnified beyond immediate recognition, this vocabulary of base fluid and matter creates a panoramic environment of almost abstract primal forces, harshly intensified by the synthetic colours [...] that correspond to our bodily essences. [...] The infinitely wriggling vitality of seminal fluid may drown us in an ocean of life forces; the shock of a blood cell's redness may alert us to the abyss between life and death. [...] Brilliantly transforming the visible world into emblems of the spirit, Gilbert & George create from these microscopic facts an unprecendented heraldry that, in a wild mutation of the Stations of the Cross, fuses body and sould, life and dedath." (R. Rosenblum, in: 'Gilbert & George. The Fundamental Pictures 1996', London 1997, unpaged.)