To celebrate this, the Czech government commissioned a Czech artist David Cerny to do an installation (apparently they commission 27 artists for the piece.)
Anyway, David Cerny is known for his shock value - he decorated a TV tower with bronze babies, and created a statue of King Wenceslas on the dead horse. I'm not entirely sure why he was chosen to be the artist (or one of the artists) but I guess he is very Czech....
Point is, his piece created controversy (shocking!!)
My opinion: I don't think the Czech government was entirely surprised, and they probably knew they were getting into something when they asked him to do this piece.
2 comments:
I can see how the countries are all offended, but really...very creative depictions.
I really enjoyed seeing his work!
I think Cerny Llloyd Mccain has a nice ring to it!!
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