Arach Arach 2

Arach arach 2 was conceived and produced by Gelatin on the occasion of "Lucas Bosch Gelatin" – an exhibition combining the worldviews of Hieronymus Bosch, Baltasar Bos, Maerten van Cleve, Jan Mandyn, Jacob Isaaksz Swanenburgh with those of contemporary artists Gelatin and Sarah Lucas – and took place at the Kunsthalle Krems in 2011.Gelatin's sculptures, made out of household wares, echo the artists' long-term use of furniture as an anthropomorphic sculptural apparatus.

"If Gelatin’s work was a cartoon, it would be one without any words. The group operates in direct contact with their audience, appealing to ‘immediate’ impressions and feelings. There is no equal exchange with the public; instead, they are sucked into what has been called ‘enter-active-art’: poetic, anarchic, easy to understand, amusing. With minimal effort (virtuoso works made of junk, handmade costumes) Gelatin build scenarios around small, absurd stories, and show how wild 'fantasy,' an often overstrained term, can be. The group is the antithesis of the strict concept-and-discourse school of art, constantly wrestling with its theoretical and aesthetic agendas."

- Markus Weiland