Neutra Kaufmann house entrance

Visual artist Eamon O’Kane is concerned with modern architectural notions of Paradise. He draws, paints and photographs architectural structures from Bauhaus to Brutalism. His Ideal Homes series features the homes designed and built by various generations of renowned architects and designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Frank Gehry and Mies van der Rohe. Even if their architectural concepts display a wide range of variations, these icons of architecture share the fact that they saw themselves as visionaries – and are seen as such to this day – and that their designs and buildings are exemplars of near perfection.

Eamon O’Kane was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and lives in Denmark and Norway. He has received various awards including the Taylor Art Award and a Fulbright Award, and has had solo shows in international galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Sheldon Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany. Eamon O’Kane is Professor of Visual Art at The Art Academy, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway.