i love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.
“The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.”
Gelatin, our beloved Viennese art-boygroup, errected a giant pink bunny on the Colletto Fava mountain in Italy’s Piemonte region. The uber-toy is over 60 meters long, and if all goes according to plan, it will stick around for the next 20 years before it has to be removed - just think how your regular-sized plush toys look now, 20 years after your childhood, and you will understand.
The Gelatins want to create a Gulliver-feeling for the visitors, and they encourage visitors to climb the 6 meter high animal and rest on its’ belly. Oh, and animal rights activists need not worry - Project “Hase/Rabbit/Coniglio/Lapin/Conejo/…” was “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool”, so neither rabbit fur nor child labor was involved. Yay!
By the way, it wouldn’t be the Gelatins if they couldn’t even make a project like this into a message that will make larger portions of the population feel uneasy. From the press text:
“The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbits’ body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines. Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.”
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I’m sorry, it needed to be said.