Reading my Metro Madrid (a free daily paper distributed at numerous entrances to Metro stops)earlier this week, I came upon a hilarious article.
An artist from the Czech Republic was commissioned to create a piece in celebration of the Czech Republic taking over the presidency of the EU council. The artist, David Cerny, was also to find 26 other artists from countries belonging to the EU to help him with the piece.
The piece, "Entropia," was revealed this week and was reported to have caused an outrage in the Czech Republic, as well as other EU countries. In the piece, each EU country was represented by its worst stereotype.
Some examples:
Germany is shown with roads criss-crossing the country.
France has a banner with "strike" written across it.
Bulgaria is represented by a toilet.
Sweden is covered in a cardboard box with an Ikea sticker on it.
Spain is an ant farm, and each Spaniard is an ant.
Cerdy also forged the names, resumes and work of the other artists that were supposed to help him with the piece. The Czech Prime Minister has apologized on behalf of his country, while Cerdy has explained that his piece was an experiment of sorts, to see if the EU could laugh at itself. I think he got his answer. Oh,
More here.
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