Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2014 - 170 Euro Cent

The Austrian artist collective Gelatin, also called Gelitin from 2005, has been giving up exuberant artistic activity since the mid-1990s. The installations, paintings, sculptures and performances inspire, alienate or shock, but they leave no one untouched. On the special stamp from the series "Young Art in Austria", Austrian Post presents a motif of the artist quartet that not only enlivens the local art scene. Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban get to know each other during their childhood on a summer camp. In 1993 they began to exhibit together internationally, for the first time they present themselves under the name "Les New Petits" in the Viennese WUK. Their excessive art of action and the frame-setting installations bring the absurd and the grotesque into an intoxicating and nevertheless natural way into reality. This makes the collective talk quickly about itself. A good deal of humor as well as a clear affinity to the genitals and feces characterize many of her works. At the same time, Gelatin does not shy away from banalities - her shamelessness and her chaos often give her work a refreshing childishness. One of her most courageous actions is the project "The B-Thing", realized in 2000 - Gelatin enters a balcony mounted on the New York World Trade Center itself and can be photographed from a helicopter. In 2001, as part of the Venice Biennale, they turned the Austrian pavilion into a proliferating wetland. In 2003, when they put up their own version of the Arc de Triomphe in front of the Salzburg Rupertinum, a political party appears - quickly the larger-than-life sculpture of a man urinating in his mouth is torn off again. Finally, the sculpture is reused in the London Gagosian Gallery, which houses countless objects, junk and flooding the exhibition "Sweatwat". Another cause for concern is an oversized cuddly rabbit, who has been enriching the landscape in Artesina, Italy, since 2005 and invites you to climb - five years were spent knitting on the art project "Hase". The Danube bank at St. Lorenz adorns its latest creation - the "Wachauer Nase" protrudes four meters from the ground and invites you not only to explore, but also offers from its top an excellent view of the Danube landscape. The special stamp shows one of the many unusual gelatine interpretations of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. It was first presented in 2008 in the solo exhibition "La Louvre" in the Paris Musée d'art moderne (MAM). Over an entire floor, more than 3,000 exhibits of gelatin were shown - including about two dozen Mona Lisa.