Works
One of Gelitin's best known art projects occurred in March 2000, during a six-month tenure in a vacant space in the former World Trade Center (WTC), secured through a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council program for artist residencies. [1] The group removed one of the windows on the 91st floor of the North Tower and temporarily installed a narrow balcony, while a helicopter flew around the scene, taking photographs for their book The B-Thing. [2] The book was published in 2001 and had even by that time taken on an air of urban legend. [2] [3]
Another of their projects is a gigantic plush toy: a 55-metre (180 ft) reclining pink Bunny installed on Colletto Fava (near Genoa, Italy), intended to remain there until 2025. [4] [5]
In November 2005, the group had a show at Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York, a project called Tantamounter 24/7. The artists called their project a "gigantic, complex and very clever machine", which functioned as a kind of art-copier. The group erected a barrier blocking off one half of the space, locking themselves inside for one week. They asked visitors to insert items that they wanted copied into an opening through the barrier; hand-made copies were later returned through another opening. [6]
Other works include:
- Vorm - Fellows - Attitude (2018) at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands: giant sculptures of feces, with visitors encouraged to put on costumes representing nude men and women [7]
- Sculpture for a Sculpturepark (2018) a temporary interactive clay pit for visitors to make sculptures, at the Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp [8]
- Die Wachauer Nase (2014), a giant nose on the bank of the Danube River, in St. Lorenz (Rossatz-Arnsdorf), Wachau, Austria [9]
- Die Tusovka Runde (2014) in Moscow, Russia [10]
- La Louvre, Paris (2008) at ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Tantamounter 24/7 (2005), a "gigantic, complex and very clever machine" created at Leo Koenig, New York
- Hase / Rabbit / Coniglio (2005), a 55-metre (180 ft) knitted pink rabbit on Colletto Fava [11] [12] [13]
- Zapf de Pipi (2005), a giant icicle of frozen urine as contributed by the visitors at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art [14]
- Otto Volante (2004), a roller coaster inside a gallery in Milan, Italy
- Arc de Triomphe (2003), a 7-metre (23 ft) tall fountain picturing a urinating figure made of 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb) of plasticine, in Salzburg, Austria
- Armpit (2002), a human elevator of body builders for the Liverpool Biennial
- Schlund (2001), a human scaffolding of fat people at the Bavarian Theatre, Munich, Germany
- Die totale Osmose (2001), a swamp surrounding the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
- The B-Thing (2000), a small temporary external balcony outside the 91st floor of the World Trade Center [15]
- Weltwunder (2000), a hidden underwater cave, only accessible by diving through a pipe 5 meters deep, as part of the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany
- Percutaneous Delights (1998), temporary courtyard installation at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, featuring a cooling tower of refrigerators, a climbable tower of cabinetry, and an inflatable transparent swimming pool. [16]
Arc de Triomphe (2003)
Wachauer-Nase ("Wachauer Nose") (2014)
Sculpture for a Sculpturepark (2018), interactive clay pit for visitors
Sculpture for a Sculpturepark (2018), lockers and shower for visitors
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