Czech Depiction of Europe Causes Controversy

[Treffie]

You should be happy, Sveyn. At least this time you are with company.



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Lol, I remember that one, perhaps they started chipping away slowly?

[Loddfafner]

I can only see some countries but not all of EU! What´s with baltic countries?

Estonia: a hammer and sickle. The tools, that is, not the political emblem favored as an alternative to the sunwheel here.

Latvia: "If we had mountains".

Lithuania: a contingent of soldiers pissing in the direction of Russia.

Here is the full program for the piece. Based on what appears to be opaque inside jokes, I suspect that much of it is a parody of specific art scenes while the press has only focused on the more obvious ones:

http://www.vlada.cz/assets/media-cen...tropa_1__1.pdf

The artist, David Cerny, is the same guy who painted a soviet tank pink just before the fall of Communism. A sculpture of Saddam Hussein in a shark tank was banned from Poland for fear of offending Middle Easterners.

[Freomæg]

But did anyone notice that the 'artist' responsible for the UK's piece is called 'Khalid Asadi'? Every other nation has an artist whose name is infitting with the language and heritage of that land. The United Kingdom does not. This pretty much sums up our predicament here on this (un)fair island .

[Loddfafner]

There are some more details on the wikipedia page for Entropa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropa).

With no clear indication made by the artist nor by the official presentation, various interpretations of a single country can be drawn, and this list is by no means definite.

Austria, a known opponent of atomic energy, is a green field dominated by nuclear plant cooling towers

Belgium is presented as a half-full box of half-eaten pralines

Bulgaria is depicted by a series of connected "Turkish" squat toilets

Cyprus is jigsawed in half

The Czech Republic's own piece is an LED display, which will flash controversial quotes by Czech President Václav Klaus after the sculpture's activation

Denmark is Muhammad's face depicted in Legoes, reminiscent of the cartoon controversy

Estonia is presented with a hammer and sickle, the country has considered a ban on Communist symbols

Finland is depicted as a wooden floor with animals

France is draped in a "GRÈVE!" ("STRIKE!") banner

Germany is a series of interlocking autobahns, described as "somewhat resembling a swastika", though that is not universally accepted. Upon activation, the cars are supposed to start moving.

Greece is depicted as a forest that is entirely burned

Hungary features an Atomium made of its common agricultural products melons and Hungarian sausages, based on a floor of peppers

Ireland is depicted as a brown bog with bagpipes protruding from Northern Ireland; upon activation, the bagpipes are supposed to play music every 5 minutes

Italy is depicted as a football pitch with the players holding balls in the "strategic position"

Latvia is shown as covered with mountains, in contrast to its actual flat landscape

Lithuanian soldiers are depicted urinating on Russia

Luxembourg is displayed as a gold nugget with "For Sale" tag

Malta is a tiny island with its prehistoric dwarf elphant as its only decoration

The Netherlands has disappeared under the sea with only a several minarets still visible; upon activation, this piece is supposed to emit the singing of muezzins

Poland, known for its staunch Catholic traditionalism, has a piece with priests erecting the rainbow flag of the Gay rights movement

Portugal is shown as a wooden cutting board with three pieces of meat in the shape of its former colonies Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique

Romania is a Dracula-style theme park

Slovakia is depicted as a Hungarian sausage (or a human body tighten by Hungarian tricolour)

Slovenia is shown as a rock engraved with the words first tourists came here 1213

Spain is covered entirely in concrete, with a concrete mixer situated near the Basque country

Sweden is large Ikea box with Gripen fighter planes

The United Kingdom, known for its Euroscepticism and relative isolation from the Continent, is "included" as missing piece in the kit

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If you were to compose such a sculpture, what would you do differently?

[Manifest Destiny]

If we can't even insult our neighbors than how can we deal with hostile invaders?

I think that's kinda the point of European thought crime laws; to leave the native, white population completely disarmed in its struggle against the invasion. They already took your guns. Now they're after your thoughts.

[Pino]

But if Wales ain't Europe, what is it then?

it's a bit strange in Britain alot of people dont actually consider themselfs european.

Many people feel isolated from everybody else on our little island.

if it keeps everybody Anti-E.U then bring on the anti-european attitudes I say.

[Birka]

"Lithuanian soldiers are depicted urinating on Russia"