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Utopia Ltd

Mabb, D. and Walsh, M. R. (2011) Utopia Ltd. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract/Summary

Utopia Ltd. explores the relationship between utopian ideas and commodification, bringing together artwork by Blaise Drummond, Brendan Earley, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Lizi Sanchez and Mary-Ruth Walsh. The seven artists’ work opens up a debate on the utopian within painting, sculpture, architecture, design and video.The works in Utopia Ltd. represent modernist architecture and design in its various mutations within a spectacularised, commodified 20th century consumer society. In these works, the utopian dream seems to burst through again and again, despite rather than because of the permutations of commodity culture. By picturing the past, present and possible future, the works destabilize fixed linear time. By rescuing, reclaiming and re-picturing, Utopia Ltd. suggests that utopian ideas persist in contemporary art, making a provocative demand on the viewer’s capacity to produce utopian dreams of their own. The exhibition’s title Utopia Ltd. is a satirical echo of an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan, Utopia (Limited) or, The Flowers of Progress (1893), in which a utopian colony is turned into a joint stock company.

Item Type:Show/Exhibition
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Art > Fine Art
ID Code:25773
Uncontrolled Keywords:Utopia, "Pil and Galia Kollectiv", Wexford, Drogheda
Additional Information:Group exhibition curated by David Mabb and Mary Ruth Walsh. Artists: Blaise Drummond, Brendan Earley, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, David Mabb, Lizi Sánchez, Mary Ruth Walsh

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