Opening Reception For Gelitin: Democratic Sculpture 7

On September 23 the Neubauer Collegium will host a reception to open Democratic Sculpture 7, an exhibition by Gelitin. The Viennese group, made up of Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, and Wolfgang Gantner, first met in 1978, “when they all attended a summer camp” – and they have been “playing and working together” ever since. Known internationally for their ambitious public art projects and transgressive performances, Gelitin are indefatigable partisans of the ludic impulse in art, forever honoring Friedrich Schiller’s claim that “man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.” A major new sculpture will make a brief public appearance at the Chicago Cultural Center on September 21 before it is installed at the Neubauer Collegium. This exhibition is presented as part of the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial. Image courtesy of the artists. More Info below.