Thursday, March 10, 2011

Utopias

Constant Nieuwenhuys - Symbolic Representation of New Babylon - 1969




Agnes Dene - Wheatfield: A Confrontation - 1982





Mark Titchner - We Want Answers to the Questions of Tomorrow - 2003



Therapeutic Utopia:
Antony Gormley - Asian Field - 2006
"The numbers - 180,000 little figures, 25 tonnes of clay, 3500 boxes - all those statistics are justified if you realise it's tackling big issues...The project is to try to make a surrogate world population, as the unborn, the future, the possible inheritors of the earth."
"Gormley,...said he did not know what would happen to the Chinese figurines after the Biennale was over, but he hoped that someone might buy it for £2 million ($5 million). "