This Saturday, Austrian collective Gelitin will open a show at Galerie Emnnauel Perrotin, Paris, entitled the Voulez Vous Chaud – a pun on the English ‘show’ and French for ‘hot’. It’s no surprise that the gang of four, who met in the seventies at summercamp and joined arms to startle and outrage the art crowds in 1993, will be displaying pieces as humorous and subtly politicized as awlays. Plenty of nude self-portraits are to be expected, as we were told. The hilariously evasive quartet answered Sleek’s questions by composing a limerick for each.
What are you saying about the world and market of art? We say it is a big world.
A big world with a lot of onknown teritorry to be discovered yet.
A lot of history a lot of future.
A big playground getting bigger and bigger every day.
The market is just part of this world.
What is the story behind the title? “The voulez vous chaud” is the title for a gallery show in Paris.
The French language is a beautiful language.
And we like the sound of it a lot.
It is a great language for compliments and classic catchy phrases.
There are some great lines that start with: voulez vous….
Voulez vous frais fraise de Père Lachaise
Voulez vouz ça-va, ça vient
Voulez vous la merde c’est moi
Voulez vous manger à l’œil
Voulez vous oh la la
Voulez vous la mère du maire est mon frère
Voulez vous début du duvet
Voulez vous descendez à la cave
Voulez vous métro – boulot – dodo
What is the biggest novelty in the show? “The voulez vous chaud”
features a series of fresh new Gelatin paintings.
Joyful, bold, avant-garde paintings.
What story are you telling, what are you critiquing? The story is about everything and nothing.
The story is about: life, love, lust, loosing, longing, lonelyness, liberation, looks, licks, loops, any letter you pick.
Why is humour still important to you? What do you mean by still?
But, yes humor is important, as it is the topping on the cake of sadness, joy and tragedy.
What is there left to do when you can’t laugh about it ?
Gelitin, “The voulez vous chaud” March 10 – April 21 2012 Galerie Perrotin, Paris