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Utopia has long been a subject of investigation for artists, as well as a model for artistic collectives. In the early 1800s, artistic brotherhoods inspired by the medieval guild emerged, pursued the utopian tenets of communal work, and retreated to ideal communities they established. By the end of the nineteenth century, utopian groups flourished, as artists, architects, designers, and writers embraced aestheticized experience and artisanal traditions in reaction to the unsightliness and commercialism of urban life. Following World War I, avant-gardes turned to the utopian notion of harmony they saw to be inherent in abstraction and optimistically endeavored to recraft and ameliorate society through art and design.
Utopia Matters takes an international sequence of case studies from the early nineteenth century through 1933, when the Bauhaus closed in Berlin and the ascendancy of Fascism and Stalinism curbed or negatively reframed such endeavors, and examines the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western artistic thought and practice. The movements addressed will be: Les Primitifs, the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and Arts and Crafts, the Cornish Colony, Neo-Impressionism, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism.
After the presentation at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin the exhibition Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus will be on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice from May 1 - July 25, 2010.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Summer, ca. 1890
Curator
Vivien Greene
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Hours
Daily 10 am - 8 pm
Including the Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP and CAFE
Admission
| Adults | | € 4 |
| reduced | | € 3 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
| School classes with guided tours | | Admission free |
| Groups up to 20 | | € 35 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
| Mondays | | Admission free |
Catalog and Edition
The catalog Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus (German and English, € 32) accompanies the exhibition.
Luca Buvoli has created Flipbook 2 (from Flying – Practical Training for Beginners), 1999-2010 as Edition No. 50 for the Deutsche Guggenheim. The flipbook is available exclusively in a limited and signed edition of 20 and an unsigned edition of 1,000. For information call + 49 (0) 30 20 20 93 -15 / -16.
Guided tours
Daily Lectures - Daily 6 pm (free guided tour)
I Like Mondays Lectures - Mondays 11 am to 8 pm (free short guided tours)
Lunch Lectures - Wednesdays 1 pm (Guided tours on selected themes followed by a lunch)
We are pleased to offer special guided tours in German and English, as well as tours for children and schoolgroups. For information and reservations call +49 (0) 30 20 20 93-19 or e-mail berlin.guggenheim@db.com.
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Deutsche Guggenheim SHOP
Here you can find more than 700 articles: catalogues, design articles, toys, etc.
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