Untitled, a proposal for a personal Utopia
350 x 350 x 300 cm
Wood, oil on panel
ISCP, New York, USA
Dutch artist Alon Levin's latest exhibition Postponed Modernism is on view at KLEMM'S, Berlin. The gallery describes his wooden structures as:
Philosophical, economical, and social theories of progress and growth, organizing principles, and ideas of modernist utopias are some of the recurring themes in his work. Levin examines the images, metaphors, and symbols that represent these concepts, and explores the contradictions and failings of their systems. The work can be seen as a narration about the buildup, breakdown, and possibly the reinvention of meaning itself.
As dystopian rhetoric makes me contemplate hoarding, Levin's Untitled, a proposal for a personal Utopia uses lumber and icons to frame up a private haven.
Things to Come and the Man with the Cigar, 2006
Wood, paint, tracks, model train
600 x 210 x 220 cm
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Open Ateliers 2006, Amsterdam, NL
Video here.
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