Artists drew national prejudices
ARTinvestment.RU   13 января 2009

In Brussels, an exhibition Entropa, on stereotypes of perception of the European countries

In Brussels, an exhibition Entropa, on stereotypes of perception of the European countries. It was established on the initiative of the Czech Republic, which from 1 January 2009 is the chairman of the European Union. The exhibition was attended by 27 artists - in the number of EU countries. The motto of the project - «Stereotypes - it is the barriers to be overcome», writes Lenta.ru referring to France Presse .

images ironic: for example, the map of Denmark is made up of blocks Lego, Finland looks like sex in a sauna, Sweden presented a box from IKEA. Netherlands flooded with water, out of which protrude minarets, Malta painted tiny Elephant (dwarf elephants lived on the island in prehistoric times). Across France, hanging a poster «strike», Germany proshita highway, is equipped with the signature of Latvia «If we had mountains!». Bulgarian artist Elena Zhelebova drawn on a map of their homeland Turkish toilet and called her a picture «pankovskim gesture». Leszek Hirshenberger sparodiroval textbook photograph of American soldiers on Ivodzime and showed Polish priests, in raising a rainbow flag gay.

Source: lenta.ru