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Utopia is, according to the definition of Thomas More in his book Utopia, a non-place, a place that does not exist: a non-realization. Utopia therefore lives at the concept or idea stage. It is only materially palpable by the thinker who describes its functioning in a book or the architect who draws its outlines on a plan. This painting aims to be the capture of this fleeting moment which is the creation of a utopian architecture, like a mental photograph of the mind of the visionary. At that time, the images of known utopian architectures were turned upside down: Etienne Louis-Boullée and the Cenotaph of Newton, Fritz Lang and Metropolis, etc. Other images intermingle by pure inspiration or obsession. From this profusion of ideas will emerge only one, the utopian architecture which can be frozen on paper, like a snapshot. Ink on canvas 2.5/2m. Architectures Utopiques, galerie La Grenette, Sion, Switzerland.

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