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Apollolaan 14/10/2011 13h01
Searchinbg for Utopia by Jan Fabre (1958, Belgium) is installed in 2011 for the ArtZuid (International Scupture Route Amsterdam) expostion in the Amsterdam Zuid. This object is installed for this exposition but will remain here permanently.

For Searching for Utopia (2003) the artist Jan Favre was inspired by the book Utopia written by English statesman and humanist Thomas More in 1516, describing an imaginary island with an ideal political system. In the sculpture Fabre despicts himself ridaing a huge tortoise, looking out to sea for the island Utopia. By choosing a tortoise as his steed he is saying that the desired destination should be reached at a leisurely pace rather than in a rush.
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  • Taken: Oct 14, 2011
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  • Updated: Oct 18, 2011