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Buco

Gelitin

日期
28.01.2014 | 15.03.2014
地址
Massimo De Carlo, Milano

Massimo De Carlo presents Buco, a new solo exhibition by Gelitin opening on January 28th in the Milan spaces of the gallery.

The new works in Buco have been realized during a six-day performance presented at the 21er Haus Museum of Contemporary Art Wien in the summer of 2013. A gigantic cube of Styrofoam placed in the middle of the exhibition hall gave the Gelitin the material necessary to sculpt new works in negative: this monumental monolith has been assaulted, sculpted and shaped during a performance with the participation of artist friends and musicians close to the collective who accompanied it with energy, live music, theatrical gestures, massive transfers.

The Styrofoam block has been progressively eroded, perforated, penetrated, and consumed creating a number of empty spaces – negative spaces – that the artists filled with plaster. The resulting michelangiolesque sculptures, came out from controlled and powerful actions, are at the same time abstract and domestic. The sculptures in Buco recall the philosophical and literary image of the cave. For Gelitin, in fact, the hole is the symbol of an eremitic life, a place where nothing needs to happen and where, paradoxically, there is no need for action. Everything can happen, or anything at all, it makes no difference. The act of destroying a huge cube of polystyrene goes beyond the idea of creating and building something and generates a short circuit between the passive wait for something to happen opposed to an action determined positively and with full consciousness.

The act of digging, eroding and perforating the polystyrene happens once again in the exhibition Buco, but this time the Gelitin group assaults a wall to create a passage to a private space of the gallery, where the artists screen the video Gelitin LOCH by Angela Christlieb documenting the performance in Vienna, visible whilst sitting on Untitled, 2013.

In the upper floor of the gallery Gelitin exhibit a new series of three-dimensional drawings, an unconventional hybrid between drawings and sculptures. Crinkled paper sheets, on which hundreds of small characters, landscapes and objects are drawn, are stuck in their disordered form thanks to a layer of papier mâché and plaster. Also in this series of drawings, the Gelitin question the boundaries between determination and chance.

Gelitin

GELITIN是一个由四位艺术家 — WOLFGANG GANTNER,ALI JANKA,FLORIAN REITHER和TOBIAS URBAN — 组成的艺术家团体。他们自1978年相识,在随后的这些年开展了越来越多的合作,1993年正式以团体名义参展。他们目前居住生活在维也纳。


GELITIN的作品包括广泛的媒介,从表演和装置到雕塑和新媒体。尽管多样,其作品有一个共同的目标:挑战作品与观者之间的传统关系。


GELITIN常邀请观者参与到作品中,鼓励观者成为共同创作及合作者,而不只是被动的观众。某些情况下,他们甚至会破坏作品,模糊创作与拆除之间的界限。


通过幽默、自发性、童真和大胆感性的独特融合,GELITIN已成为艺术界的先锋力量。他们的作品使观者从全新视角看待世界,并接受意想不到的事情。通过模糊艺术与生活的界限,GELITIN提供了一种有趣而富有想象力的逃离世俗的方式。

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