Gelitin Mirrors

Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique is pleased to present Gelitin Mirrors, a new exhibition by the Viennese collective. Across performance, installation and sculpture, Gelitin have long questioned the boundary between the work and its viewer. Here, they turn to an object people have looked into for millennia: a surface that shows us the work and ourselves at once.

"looky look at it and back at you and back again.

mirrors in art have a very mucho long history.

one of the first known mirrors is made from highly polished obsidian dating 6200 BC.

chinese, egyptian, etruscan, greek, roman, maya, aztec, inca cultures used mirrors as personal, spirtual and magical objects.

lust and beauty, vanity, ambiguity, deception, the limits of reality...

Jan van Eyck, Diego Velazquez, Cindy Sherman, Giovanni Boccaccio, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Frida Kahlo, Peter Paul Rubens, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Dan Graham, Francesca Woodman...

gelatin loves to play with art, psychology, human behavior, history and everything using their gelatin logic and gelatin style.

just look at them, maybe they look back at you too."

Gelitin's projects span a wide range of mediums, from performance and installation to sculpture and new media. Despite this diversity, their work is united by a shared purpose: to challenge the conventional relationship between artwork and audience.

Gelitin frequently invites audience participation in their work, encouraging viewers to become co-creators and collaborators rather than passive spectators. In some cases, they even invite the destruction of the artwork, blurring the boundaries between creation and demolition.

Through their unique blend of humour, spontaneity, childlike naiveté, and bold sexuality, Gelitin has established itself as a pioneering force in the art world. Their work challenges viewers to see the world from a new perspective and embrace the unexpected. By blurring the lines between art and life, Gelitin offers a playful and imaginative escape from the mundane