One is too much and a hundred are not enough
日期
22.06.2010 | 15.09.2010
画廊
London
Gelitin are an internationally renowned group from Vienna, Austria, formed Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban. They met in 1978 and began to increasingly work together in the coming years, actively exhibiting as a partnership in 1993.
One is too much and a hundred are not enough is the first solo exhibition for Gelitin in the United Kingdom for over five years and marks a departure for the group who are more renowned for intricate performance based feats. These fourteen plasticine works tackle the loaded image of the Mona Lisa, a subject that both fascinates and bemuses Gelitin in equal measures.
The result is an energising celebration of an oft drably regurgitated and decontextualized masterpiece. Mona Lisa appears in varying dimensions with the classic visage and background pushed to extremes. Gelitin pride themselves in exploring all her fates. Untitled, Mona Lisa, (bearing ball) considers the viewer sheepishly with a single pupil peeping out from behind her hair. In other works sexual nuances are uncompromising loaded upon her by way of erect phallic noses and expectant receiving lips. Whilst with Untitled, Mona Lisa, (blue Lagoon) the perfect smile is parted to reveal the results of 16th century dentistry demanding empathy that one does not expect to supply. Untitled, Mona Lisa, (pretty bacon) and (pretty vacant) take these sentiments further as Mona is aged, torn and splattered.
Gelitin have been described in the media as taking ideas and running with them and in recent years the Mona Lisa has proved a hard one for Gelitin to shift. One is too much and a hundred are not enough forms a heart felt homage to that smile.
Gelitin have exhibited globally with Institutions, Museums, Galleries and not-for-profit organisations; including a solo exhibition entitled La Louvre, Paris, 2008, at ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Their work is currently featured in the The New Décor exhibition, Hayward gallery, London.
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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。