About Gelitin
The art of Gelitin is defined by its rich diversity of media. This includes performance art, sculpture, painting, film, public art, ceramics, etc. Since the mid-90s, Gelitin has produced artworks characterized by a fondness for doing things wrong. They have mastered the art of failure.
Gelitin consists of Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, and Tobias Urban, who first met at summer camp in 1978 and began exhibiting together in 1993. Their provocative artworks include The B-Thing, a secret balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center, and the iconic 200-foot-long pink Bunny on Colletto Fava, Italy, which became a temporary cultural landmark which has since disappeared.
Gelitin has gained international cult status for being wild, provocative and free-spirited. But in reality they are sweet, caring and playful within their orchestrated chaos. They strive to be as humanly human as possible — and entirely focused on making art. More information: www.gelitin.net
Fun fact
With HASE, Gelitin created an artwork meant to slowly decay, using wool stuffed with straw to mimic natural decomposition.
The tattoo version carries on this concept. As your body ages, the tattooed rabbit also changes its appearance. How beautiful that you’re giving HASE this opportunity to grow old with you.
Some museums asked Gelitin if they could temporarily exhibit HASE in their institutions. Gelitin declined, however, because they wanted to create a work of art outside of art institutions — not in the white cube, but in the landscape of mountains and valleys, which provided a congenial setting for this sculpture. In this sense, your body also becomes a collaborator and a new landscape for HASE. Perhaps your body, too, holds congenial mountains and valleys as a new home for HASE.
