---
title: "Torn from the plinth"
date: 2021-03-15
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/torn-from-the-plinth-gilbert-george-2021-context-en/"
description: "When Gilbert & George first became a “Singing Sculpture” in 1969, it fell on fertile ground: In the years before, a group of artists had already radically questioned the definition of sculpture."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/header_singing_sculpture.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Torn from the plinth