"Who killed Barack Obama?" In Poland
source: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews7-31-08-1.asp
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As we know from the recent controversy over the New Yorker cover satirizing stereotypes about Barack Obama, nothing can get you in trouble faster than cutting-edge comedy aimed at the Democratic presidential contender. In the U.S., that is. Over in Wrocław, a city of about 690,000 people in the southeast of Poland, things are a bit different. There, artist Peter Fuss has unleashed a giant-sized vinyl street mural, stretched across the side of a building, proclaiming "Who Killed Barack Obama?" In stark black and white, the enormous work features the image of Obama thrown on his back, apparently felled by an assassin’s bullet, with a drop of blood issuing from the corner of his mouth.
Playing on the oft-expressed fears that Obama might be assassinated like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Who Killed Barack Obama? is part of a show organized by curator Joanna Stembalska and street artist Sławek ZBK Czajkowski at the Galeria Awangarda and other venues throughout Wrocław, July 18-Aug. 17, 2008. The show features Fuss and 19 other street artists, and is subsidized by Poland’s ministry of culture and national heritage.
Fuss previously made the news with his work For the Laugh of God, a "knock-off" of Damien Hirst’s famous diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God [see "Artnet News," June 26, 2007]. In that instance, Fuss declared that "cheap Polish labor" could best Hirst, selling plastic skulls covered with cut-glass diamonds on the street in London, and through his website. Whether his new provocation gains the attention that it clearly craves remains to be seen.
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hala
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I'm not sure if I like it, I'm one of 72% of Poles who are for Obama.
- 3 years ago
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hala
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smartcafe
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For our next billboard we have a little piece called "Who nuked Poland?"
- 3 years ago
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smartcafe
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lfm
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the artist will get the media coverage that seems to be obviously wanted by making such a piece. remains true that the issue is not on as many peoples thoughts as it should, art shouting out emotion is what is all about, its all about truth
- 3 years ago
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lfm
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kennymotown
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I'm sure we would all ask this question if something happened too our canidate. Read between the lines.
- 3 years ago
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kennymotown
