Marcel Witte

For this work I get inspired by Utopia, the book of Thomas More (1516), in which he describes an idealistic world. I have imagined this idealistic world in a painted installation, existing out of forty small canvases (15x25 cm), depicting a metropolis. The work is dedicated to all inhabitants of million cities, in which a multicultural population lives together in identical skyscrapers. A society which I imagined by colored birds, from all kinds of countries and in all individual tonalities. An idealized image in which everyone lives together in perfect harmony. It is posible to buy the artwork in total or by piece. A sold 'birdhouse' will be replaced by a new copy and get a new occupant. On this way the whole 'skycraper' will stay intact, but the occupants will change. Just like what happens in a real metropolis.

You can find more info about this project on the information page.

Here you can meet all the occupants of 'Multicultural'