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CZ art hoax


http://us.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/14/eu.czech.art.row/index.html#cnnSTCText

 

Cerny, and his main collaborators Kristof Kintera and Tomas Pospiszyl apologized to Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and other government ministers Tuesday, according to a statement on the artist's Web site, for " not having informed them about what is true and for having misled them.The statement adds that Cerny and his colleagues initially wanted to use 27 European artists for "Entropa", but fell short due to lack of time and money. Instead, they say, they decided to create fictional artists, some of whom have even been given their own Web sites.advertisementCerny says he knew the truth would eventually come out but adds: "We believe that the environment of Brussels is capable of ironic self-reflection, we believe in the sense of humor of European nations and their representatives.

CZ art hoax


http://us.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/14/eu.czech.art.row/index.html#cnnSTCText

 

Cerny, and his main collaborators Kristof Kintera and Tomas Pospiszyl apologized to Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and other government ministers Tuesday, according to a statement on the artist's Web site, for " not having informed them about what is true and for having misled them.The statement adds that Cerny and his colleagues initially wanted to use 27 European artists for "Entropa", but fell short due to lack of time and money. Instead, they say, they decided to create fictional artists, some of whom have even been given their own Web sites.advertisementCerny says he knew the truth would eventually come out but adds: "We believe that the environment of Brussels is capable of ironic self-reflection, we believe in the sense of humor of European nations and their representatives.

2009/01/13

Europe needs the 'shocking' Czechs :: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels


Europe needs the 'shocking' Czechs :: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels

Conservative Roman Catholic Poland is depicted by a sculpture of priests raising the rainbow flag of the gay movement, subverting the iconic image of the American soldiers planting the Stars and Stripes on Iwi Jima. "A surreal vision of the interconnection of that which can not be interconnected," claims the artist Leszek Hirszenberg.

This is probably what I like most about czech people - open hatred of stupid people.

entropa

Europe needs the 'shocking' Czechs :: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels


Europe needs the 'shocking' Czechs :: Bruno Waterfield in Brussels

Conservative Roman Catholic Poland is depicted by a sculpture of priests raising the rainbow flag of the gay movement, subverting the iconic image of the American soldiers planting the Stars and Stripes on Iwi Jima. "A surreal vision of the interconnection of that which can not be interconnected," claims the artist Leszek Hirszenberg.

This is probably what I like most about czech people - open hatred of stupid people.

entropa