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2005物件
2005, 上海,新乌托邦主义(NeoUtopia)比翼艺术中心
每副扑克印着五十四个二十世纪以来的各大“理想主义者”,他们的“追求与最终的失败”都通过简短的语句展现在牌面,由观众自己去评判.
A full deck of 54 playing cards depicting the grand idealists of the 20th century, their idealist pursuit and their failure...


Leon Trotsky
He struggled for an international and permanent communist revolution under a democratic party rule
The Soviet state he helped to create expels and assassinates him.

William J. Simmons
he revives the Ku Klux Klan - violently hostile towards blacks and aliens
He is booted out as leader, his clan disintegrates with the steady advancement of the civil-rights movement

T.E.Lawrence
He puts his life on the line in fighting for the arab cause
He realizes that he is efforts were exploited as a means the to interest of the british colonial empire

Karl Marx
He propagates a proletarian revolution in order to attain modern society and social change
His theories are either misinterpreted or held directly responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union

Osama bin Laden
He inflames islamic fundamentalists in their ideological war against western oppression
Even in the arab world he is widely considered a calamity and a trial for the Muslims

Marilyn Monroe
Born very humble, with strong aspirations, she exclaims: I just want to be wonderful
Turned into a sex-symbol and deprived of professional recognition, she takes her life at young age

Marc Andreessen
Visionary co-inventor of the first graphic web-browsers
7 years gives up the battle against the overwhelming competition by Microsoft

Che guevara
Guerilla and marxist-revolutionary. Key-figure in the liberation of Cuba from a corrupt military dictatorship.
Discredited, he dies at the hand of CIA-trained bolivian soldiers and turns into a commercial icon

Adolf Hitler
He proclaims the superiority of the arian race and launches the expansion of its living space
The defeat of world war II proves his race ideology wrong and leaves the world in disaster

Sophie Scholl
She wishes to overturn the Nazi-regime and establish a new spiritual Europe
At the age of 20, she is arrested for distributing pamphlets and executed by guillotine

Le Corbusier
"A House Is A Machine For Living In", he rallied for modern techniques to attain more efficient living
The capital of Brazil, modeled after his urban principles, is considered a colossal failure

Yasser Arafat
He fights against Israel and for an independent Palestinian State
In the end, he is widely accused of being himself the very obstacle to palestinian statehood

Patrick Moore
Year long leader of Greenpeace, he pursued non-violent confrontation to force solutions for a green future
After starting a compromising business he turns the most outspoken critic of Greenpeace

Timothy Treadwell
To learn about and protect them, he lives 13 summers with dangerous grizzly bears
His camera is recording while he is killed and devoured by one of them

Ulrike Meinhof
Key-figure in german terror history fighting against imperialism and state brutality
In prison she commits suicide when excluded from the group