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Research, interactivity and new media art

Wunderkammer

Ricardo Iglesias

Wunderkammer. Objetos UtópicosWunderkammer. Objetos UtópicosWunderkammer. Utopian Objects(2019)

Concept
Utopias are born of ideas, desires, worries, needs to change the world, concepts of justice and equality for all … They grow and spread in different disciplines such as art, literature, architecture,Philosophy, sociology, and psychology are formalized in countless objects, books, t-shirts, postcards, pieces of art, drawings, photographs, machines, … Imaginaries that like dreams, possibilities, real possibilities or lines of action, work spaces, formats, collaborative, calls for attention …

Project
The intervention proposes the creation of a Wunderkammer or “Cabinet of curiosities” in the style of those created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with objects that communicate ideas about possible utopias. Inspired by the original classification, an own classification has been proposed.

>> Violet color – Utopia Corporis (body): gender, body, nature, hybrid…
>> Blue color – Utopia Artificialia (artifacts): technology, machines, progress, science…
>> Green color – Utopia Societatis (society): social relations, future, humanity, society, love…
>> Orange color – Utopia Humanistica (humanities): art, philosophy, thought, architecture…

The exhibition consists of more than a hundred objects and has involved more than 37 artists from Spain and Latin America: Luminita Albisoru (Monterrey), Antonio Alvarado (Madrid), Daniel Álvarez Olmedo (Buenos Aires), Natalia Ángel (Bogotá), Xoán Anleo (Vigo), Patxi Araujo (Bilbao), Stefano Caldana /Roberta Bosco (Barcelona), Varvara & Mar (Barcelona), Arcángel Constantini (México DF.), José Antonio Delgado (Sevilla), Constanza Giaquinto (Buenos Aires), Ana Elena González (México DF.), Ramón Guimaraes (Barcelona), Sylvia Molina (Madrid), Montse Morcate (Barcelona), Ana María Morilla Sirvent (Buenas Aires), Nic Mota (Buenos Aires), Gabriela Munguía (México DF.), Guillermina Navarro (México DF.), Leo Núñez (Buenos Aires), Juan Pro (Madrid), Óscar Recuenco (Madrid), José Manuel Ruiz (Toledo), Lorena Sánchez Romero (Madrid), Daniela Rubio Zea (Buenos Aires), Darío Sacco Buenos Aires), Socatoba (Badajoz), Mariela Yeregui (Buenos Aires), Guillermo Valverde (Barcelona)…