"Everything that we see around us, in the world surrounding us, everything that we discover in the past, that which possibly could comprise the future -- all of this is a limitless world of projects."
One of the great buildings in London, The Roundhouse in Camden Town is a magnificent memorial to the Victorian mind: to progress science and belief in the future. At the end of a century of great dreams and broken promises, the celebrated Soviet artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov created in the Roundhouse one of their own visionary schemes - The Palace of Projects.
Inside The Palace were displayed a vast range of models and maquettes, plans and paintings made by melancholics and misfits, absurd hobbyists and down-to-earth dreamers - 'The Palace of the Future', 'The White Cloud Ball', 'How to Meet an Angel', 'The Enfilada of World Music'...
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