Exhibition and print design: KontraStudio
DEFENSE OF UTOPIA
A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at,
for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891.
Comic works gathered in this publication present the result of a project organized by “Anonymous said:” in cooperation with the Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade and daily newspaper “Danas” from mid-September until the end of December 2013. The title of the project was "Defense of Utopia," which was initiated with an aim to encourage discussions related to the theme of social justice, as fundamentally devalued question, which indicates anomalies and vulgarity of the social system in which we live today.
At the same time the intention of the project was to relocate comics from the current comfort zone of events and exhibitions based solely on the media and to position it in the center of prevailing social problems, demonstrating the potential of comics as a modern visual media, which undoubtedly belongs to the main stream of contemporary visual culture. Because comics in Serbia are characterized by a respectable tradition and quality achievements. Thus, the above-mentioned topics were treated by renowned comic artist: Zoran Janjetov, Željko Pahek, Aleksandar Zograf, Ivica Stevanovic, Lazar Bodroža and Boris Stanic, representatives of different generations, with different artistic sensibilities and strategies of action.
