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How might desires and taboos shape a person’s ability to imagine? What role does technology play in wish fulfillment? The Art:21 documentary “Fantasy” explores these questions in the work of four artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Cao Fei, whose works defy convention and transport the audience to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind’s eye.

This episode of the Peabody Award-winning series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century will be screened on Thursday, February 11, at 7:00 p.m. at The Rowayton Library, 33 Highland Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06853. The evening, which will include refreshments and a participatory art activity, is hosted by The Rowayton Library and The Rowayton Arts Center in partnership with Art:21, Inc. as part of its Art21 Access ’09 initiative. For information call (203) 838-5038.

For more information about this episode, the featured artists and Art 21, visit the web site at www.art21.org.