EU Art Scam

Now how about a post on art serving as monkey-wrench-in-the-gears to stated political aims. The EU presidency has recently rotated to the Czech Republic. The Czech government commissioned a work of art celebrating all 27 member states as a grand ecumenical gesture to kick off their term. Instead they got one guy pretending to be 27 different artists and using the forum to poke fun at the other member states through blatantly politically incorrect stereotypes.

Like Germany as a freeway system in the shape of a swastika. Or Bulgaria as a Turkish toilet. That did not go over well.

Here is an early review before anyone realized it was a hoax. Notice how it quotes different artists on their contributions to the piece.

Here is the fall out.

Here is a slideshow of the actual work. Which on viewing makes you wonder why it took so long for people to realize this was not a celebration but a blatant send up.

Here is artist David Cerny apologizing after the hoax was discovered.