Thursday, January 15, 2009

Cerny's Entropa And European Stereotypes

To celebrate the Czech Republic's ascendency to the EU presidency, artist David Cerny was commissioned to create a piece of art which represents Europe. The controversial piece, called Entropa, makes fun of each EU member instead. In fact, to represent Great Britain's separateness from the rest of Europe, it is not even in the artwork.

Romania and Dracula

The Netherlands, underwater except for minarets

Italy and its naughty football players

Germany and its autobahn (some say in the pattern of a swastika)

France on strike

Denmark in Legos

Bulgaria as a Turkish toilet

Other countries:
-Spain as a big construction site
-Luxembourg is a gold nugget with a for sale sign
-Poland has priests raising a rainbow flag
-Lithuania has its soldiers peeing on Russia
-Sweden is a box of IKEA furniture
-Greece glows red with brush fires

CKY

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