Monday, November 3, 2008

Photo exhibition "Utopia and Reality", contemporay project for the Rural Development and rural world

the french newspaper the Dépèche, "Quillan the castle as you've never seen"
contemporay project for the rural world
We are all equal facing of our contemporary culture that we live in large cities or in our countryside



Photo : Lili-oto photographed with its proposed contemporary art museum on the ruins of the castle in a small town.


















Lili-Oto presents a series of architectural and urban Utopias for the town of Quillan requiring gigantic means for mega-projects some worthy of our larger French cities.A new urban landscape for Quillan? A Quillan dreamed in the imaginary of an artist accustomed and familiarized with work in big cities. Utopias which combine the absurdity, the freedom and the illusion as well as some unconcern claimed by the artist.This show is opposed to the rational speeches and the current methods of marketing which often encircle us and lead to a true fall of the illusions like the crisis that we undergo. This photomontage expresses a radical rupture between our reasonable and logical universe which is opposed to this permanent search of the improbable by artists. They invent or create their own system of representation which marks variations with the normality in our lives.The artist is proposing: a “storks’ lake” next to the Espace Cathare, to hide the church under the - Place of the Republicimagining the visit of the catacombs of Quillan by going through the church bell-tower, a ultra contemporary museum in the enclosure of the old castle dominating the city, (a thought for the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao), a flying sculpture on top of the Old Bridge… Contemporary artist but also chief decorator for the cinema and the TV, the artist takes the “piss” of reality by telling us that despite the absurdity of all these Utopias if the budgets necessary to this kind of projects were not a damper they are probable and realizable. In reality the rational thought and the price to be paid for this economic crisis are more expensive than some of the most insane architectural Utopias which sometimes have lived through the history of our civilizations. One should not confuse virtual and dreams, with a warning from the artist: “the limit of any shared Utopia and partisan’s politic is the dogma”. lili-oto

original french blog page link : http://www.lili-oto.com/article-23835307.html
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