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ArtsEntropa just a piece of the entropy of Czech guerrilla art
The commotion in recent weeks over David Černý’s Entropa exhibit in
Brussels has made the sculpture one of the hallmarks of the Czech EU
presidency. While its opponents deem its stereotypical depiction of the 27
member states a thing of antagonism, something between mockery and insult,
its proponents have defended the work as a defining example of Czech humour
and have asked what European representation means at all, if national
humour is censurable. This week in Arts we’ll be taking a look at the
wider context of Černý’s work, what could be called a “principle of
mystification” that is traditional in Czech art and perhaps in the Czech
psyche.
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Want to buy a luxury flat in Prague? It could cost you as much as 400
million crowns. Now you can place a bet on whether the US radar base is
coming to the country. An artist defaces traffic lights and gets in trouble
with the law and police hunt a man who is impersonating a waiter. And find
out why Japanese rats love Czech beer.
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Current AffairsExplosive prank could spell fine or even prison for members of artistic group
Last June, a group of artists called Ztohoven hijacked a Czech Television
programme to broadcast images of a nuclear bomb going off on a peaceful
Czech hillside. The mock explosion may have been and gone in a flash, but
the fallout has far from disappeared. Last month, Ztohoven won an award
from the Czech National Gallery for the work. On Wednesday, State Attorney
Dušan Ondráček said that he had brought charges against the group. More
Current AffairsMushroom cloud incident to be reviewed by Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting
Last Sunday Czech viewers tuning in to watch Czech TV's morning programme
"Panorama" probably suffered something of a jolt - some quite a
shock - when a camera feed showed a flash and then an atomic mushroom
cloud rising over the Czech outdoors. The digital cloud, near the Giant
Mountains, was accompanied by a web address belonging to a provocateur
group of mostly-anonymous street artists known as Ztohoven.
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