{"id":1310,"date":"2009-01-18T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/cerny-riles-again\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:19:49","slug":"cerny-riles-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/18\/cerny-riles-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerny Riles Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Art Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure<\/h1>\n

\u00a0By\u00a0SARAH LYALL<\/a>
\nPublished: January 14, 2009<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2014 Why didn\u2019t anyone realize right away that there was something seriously weird about the new piece of art in Brussels?<\/p>\n

The piece, an enormous mosaic installed in the European Council building over the weekend, was meant to symbolize the glory of a unified Europe by reflecting something special about each country in the\u00a0European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

But wait. Here is Bulgaria, represented as a series of crude, hole-in-the-floor toilets. Here is the Netherlands, subsumed by floods, with only a few minarets peeping out from the water. Luxembourg is depicted as a tiny lump of gold marked by a \u201cfor sale\u201d sign, while five Lithuanian soldiers are apparently urinating on Russia.<\/p>\n

The 172-square-foot, eight-ton installation, titled \u201cEntropa,\u201d consists of a sort of puzzle formed by the geographical shapes of European countries. It was proudly commissioned by the\u00a0Czech Republic<\/a>\u00a0to mark the start of its six-month presidency of the European Union. But the Czechs made the mistake of hiring the artist David Cerny to put together the project.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a>\u00a0]
\n[\u00a0click to view slideshow of David Cerny’s ‘Entropa’<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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