Czech Govt. commissioned art for their presidency of the EU

[Twerto]

the Czech Govt. commissioned art for their presidency of the EU, they thought they were getting 27 different artists for each member country, instead they got this one lad who made stereotypical depictions of the countries, in sort of "snap out" model plastic form...highlights include Bulgaria depicted as a toilet, and Germany a network of roads vaguely resembling a swastika

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7827747.stm

 

 

here's the whole thing:

 

http://www.vlada.cz/assets/media-centrum/aktualne/entropa_1__1.pdf

[JAStewart]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45373000/jpg/_45373527_006712438-1.jpg

 

I don't really see a Spaztica in that...

[Muppet]

the Czech Govt. commissioned art for their presidency of the EU, they thought they were getting 27 different artists for each member country, instead they got this one lad..............

 

but that "one lad" is david Cerny. He's never been afraid to court controversy. One of his early works was to paint a soviet tank which was a WW2 memorial in Prague, bright pink. He also has a sculpture of the Duke on Wenceslas riding a dead upside down horse in a shopping centre in Prague.

 

If anybody has visited Prague and seen the TV tower, he created the babies which are crawling up and down it and the metronome which replaced stalin's sculpture at letny.

 

I've always liked his quirky style, and can't see why anyone should take offence. If they hired David Cerny, they should have expected something like that, and if you can't laugh at yourself once in a while you need to lighten up!

[trout]

You just got to love the textual skitter that is anything like this translated into English.

 

If art and associated attitudes

are not to become pleasing-appearance

ready-made goods, but a living,

albeit perhaps fleeting, organism, art

should be able to improve exactness

of its message in the time allotted

to it and thus, paradoxically, define

itself in history. This improvement

of exactness means that its individual,

selectivesieve can cover the so-called

objective sieve. Where their nodes

do not coincide, ‘free space‘ opens.

Energy of the free space is proportional

to the power of sharing, or, more

precisely, it is the sum of the freely

pulsating words which, in this context

and in each specific time, is able to

define (tangle up) different meanings

naturally through spontaneous intuition.

These screen points are spatial

holograms of historical memory, experience,

and therefore each such new

overlap becomes another non-linear

tangle to the naked eye.

 

^^ Is that even English

[EM]

I don't really see a Spaztica in that...

Most of the reports are saying "almost" or "seems to indicate" etc. It is perhaps interesting that the part which is missing (to complete the symbol) is an autobahn from Dresden to Prague itself. Instead it goes north.

[Njugle]

It's quite a comical piece indeed. If anybody was going to get offended by it I think the Bulgarians have more to complain about that the Germans.

[nederlander]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45373000/jpg/_45373527_006712438-1.jpg

 

I don't really see a Spaztica in that...

 

It's subtle, but it's certainly there.