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Submitted by laurenp 10 months, 2 weeks, 18 hours ago

To mark the start of the six-month presidency of the European Union an installation piece was commissioned by the Czech Republic to be located in Brussels at the European Council. In the piece titled "Entropa" by David Cerny, each country is represented. Cerny claimed that each piece was done by one of 27 artists, this was false. He had constructed the whole piece. Also, the stereotypes dipicted in the installation have angered many of the member countries. The outline of France is dipicted with a banner and the word "strike", Italy a soccer field, Bulgaria with interlocking hole-in-the-floor toilets, Romania as a Dracula-themed amusment park, Netherlands as flooded, and Germany as a series of highways that could resemble a swastika.

Tags: Cerny, installation, controversy

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#1 - By nkshuman, 10 months, 1 week, 17 hours ago.

I don't think there is an issue about him ascribing his work to others; art is pretty much about the illusion, anyways. (There would be a problem if he was ascribing other's work to himself.) While on one hand the depictions of the countries might be in poor taste, people also need to learn to have a sense of humor. His choice for Germany, however, may have crossed the line.

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