The show “Visionary Metropolis” about Tony Garnier
utopian city at Wolfsonian Museum was an interesting experience. It is
impressive the great capacity that Garnier had to conceive a city in such a
great dimension and with so much detail. As anyone can perceive, his works
reflect the passion and strong influence of the industrial revolution. Named in
his native language “Une Cite Industrielle”, the utopian city is mentally
designed between a mountain and a river. In this place in between the imaginary
city is created as a whole, where balance takes place in a surreal
perfectionism.
Garnier’s sketches are
an amazing outcome of a mind that wanted to create a world for others to escape
to. He built a shelter where people could rest their minds and believe that harmony
between human and nature is possible. However, like any utopia, his imagination
arrives to us as a world full of nostalgia. Many of his work appear as a fragile
creation, an intangible one. I that some of us carry a Garnier inside, some of
us hope for the perfect city.
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| I visited both shows the same day "Art and Design in the Modern Age" and "Visionary Metropolis" |
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