黑料不打烊

Slight Agitation 3/4: Gelitin鈥� is the third chapter of the exhibition project conceived by Fondazione Prada Thought Council, whose members are Shumon Basar, C茅dric Libert, Elvira Dyangani Ose, and Dieter Roelstraete.

鈥淪light Agitation鈥�, a four-part project of newly commissioned, site-specific works hosted in sequence within the Cisterna in the Milan venue of Fondazione, continues with a third instalment by the Austrian collective Gelitin. Their work follows on from Tobias Putrih and Pamela Rosenkranz, while Laura Lima will produce the final chapter.

Following Tobias Putrih鈥檚 installation which engaged with ideas of play, politics and emancipation and Pamela Rosenkranz鈥檚 intervention that offered visitors a multi-sensory immersion into a new perception of embodiment and collectivity, Gelitin present a project titled POKALYPSEA-APOKALYPSE-OKALYPSEAP. Three large sculptures explicitly address classical architectural archetypes (the triumphal arch, the obelisk and the amphitheater), subverting their rhetoric and monumental components. Symbols as much as structures conceived for everyday inhabitation, these sculptures draw an arc from the insular and individual to the open-ended and collective, from the overtly erotic to the sublimated joy of togetherness. This intervention is indicative of the group鈥檚 artistic practice which, since the 90鈥檚, has experimented with the reinterpretation of totalitarian art and performance, developing a radical attitude towards institutions. Their work has anticipated the codes of relational aesthetics and invented a sculptural language and approach to installation that are anarchic and irreverent.