What is the Utopia Project?Utopia: an ideal that has driven mankind since the beginning of time. What will the future bring? What will the world of the future look like? How will we live? When contemporary artists from all over the world began to ponder the idea of Utopia, it lead to a series of international art exhibitions that began in Venice, Italy in June of 2003. The event, called Utopia Station, brought together artists from many different genres: painters, collagists, photographers, and writers to name a few. What is the future? Now, the Utopia Station exhibitions have traveled to Munich, Germany, which is the hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" of ICAF's German headquarters! In celebration, the International Child Art Foundation has made the Utopia Station concept accessible to children with our own Utopia Project. ICAF ICAF International Child Art Foundation ICAF Industrial College of the Armed Forces ICAF International Comic Arts Festival ICAF International Capoeira Angola Foundation ICAF International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue ICAF Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation asked children from all over the world to create artworks on the theme "Utopia--children imagine and paint their future." Young artists ages 4-18 from 70 countries sent us drawings, collages, photographs, and poems illustrating their own personal versions of utopia. Some are happy; some are sad. Some are whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. and some are terrifying ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. . ICAF believes that these children's messages A children's message or children's sermon is a part of a church service dedicated to communicating an abbreviated Christian message that is palatable to small children. It might be thought of as a mini-sermon for children. need to be heard because these works of art show how children from all different walks of life see the future of the world around them. After all, the future is what children make of it! What will the future bring? ICAF has chosen some of the most powerful and imaginative artworks to be exhibited alongside the utopias of renowned adult artists at the Haus tier Kunst (the Museum of Modern Art) in Munich, Germany. The exhibition takes place from October 7, 2004 until January 2005. The famous artist Yoko Ono Noun 1. Yoko Ono - United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933) Ono is expected at the opening of the Utopia Project exhibit. Enzo Mari, a well-known Italian artist and designer, partnered with ICAF to design a second exhibition, at the Odeonplatz subway station in Munich. In addition, ICAF, in collaboration with the Haus der Kunst The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. , plans to publish a book of the children's utopias. "The children paint what the birds sing", wrote 11 year-old Jana from Bulgaria. This "bird song" is so important for our adult world as it enables us to learn again how to feel as children do. |
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