Fri

16

Jan

2009

Art censorship?

Funny things are going on in Brussels these days. As a part of the czech EU council presidency a quite sarcastic, critical work of art with the title "Entropa" has been installed in the council building which is probably the most discussed topic in the council these days.

The artist pictured every EU member country with another symbol: Germany is a swastika build of highways, The Netherlands are a sea of mosques, Poland is a potato field on which priests fly the rainbow flag, Austria is a grassland with four nuclear reactors, France is portrayed through a strike-banderole, the UK is missing entirely and Bulgaria seems to be a turkish toilet. Exactly the Bulgarians are most indignant of all and claim to remove the installation immediately. I think everybody can understand them in some kind - nobody really want's to be illustrated through a toilet. But aren't the Germans really sensitive concering swastikas? And aren't the Poles the most homophobic people in Europe?

What will this Europe be like if we start to censor art? What will be next? The Internet (greetings from China)?

Hey Europe, what about a little bit humour! Or don't you have other problems to discuss right now?

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