EU artwork raises eyebrows
Updated on 16 January 2009
Slovakia joined Bulgaria in demanding the removal of a massive EU artwork in Brussels which has shocked eurocrats and delighted supporters of national stereotypes.
An eight-tonne frame hanging in the entrance to the Council of Ministers building in Brussels contains the ideas of one radical Czech artist about how each member state should be represented.
The fact that David Cerny he was supposed to commission artists from each of the member states to design their own national imagery is the least of the problems for the Czech government which ordered the work.
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