Utopia

1992 | 40 x 56 cm | Collage and oil painting on canvas, Portrait of the artist Thomas Dellert with closed eyes is taken by A Dellert-Dellfina in 2001 and added later | Signed by Thomas Dellert UTOPIA is the kingdom of all and nothing, the island in the sea of dreams and the mental state of all free creativity. UTOPIA is also the home and atelier of the artist Thomas Dellert-Dellacroix since 1992. And have existed in London, Paris and is now located in Berlin. The collage is based on a frame used many times in surrealistic art made from photographs of the “surrealist group” in Paris with names like: tRIStan TZARa, pAUL eLUarD ANDre breTON Hans aRp, salvaDOR dALI yves TAnGUY mAX ernST, rENe CReveL, mAn rAY. And now also: t DELL a cROIX. They all have closed eyes and the eyes of the artist is painted on the closed eyelids, saying “I don’t need my eyes to see“. Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. The word comes from the Greek: οὐ ("not") ("place") and means "no place". The English homophone eutopia, derived from the Greek εὖ ("good" or "well") and τόπος ("place"), means "Good Place". This, due to the identical pronunciation of "utopia" and "eutopia", gives rise to a double meaning.