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Art Installation Stirs Europe's Ire
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/15/world/0115-MOSAI...
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.
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