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Finally, after spending six months in Brussels, the famous piece of art „Entropa” is in Prague! You can find it in DOX – gallery of modern art, in Holešovice (where there’s obviously a lot more to see than Entropa, but more about that later 
). I guess that most of you have already heard at least something about it but if you haven’t, let me tell you the story.
Entropa is a sculpture created by a famous and great artist David Černý in honour of the Czech EU presidency. The creation itself, was a mystification – as Mr. Černý said that it is a common work of artists from all 27 countries of the EU. That later turned out to be a lie, but it was too late to cancel the project. And so Entropa was successfully installed in Brussels in January 2009.
This piece of art has caused a lot of controversy. It is a 16 x 16 meter plastic, showing the EU countries in a very satiric way. Each country is symbolised by some of its stereotypes, for instance Slovakia looks like a Hungarian sausage, France is covered by a sheet with the word „Gréve” (strike). Bulgaria, shown as a construction of Turkish toilets, even brought up an official protest and was dispatched later on (but is back on today).
The whole Entropa is very colourful and I could probably spent hours enjoying just the sight of it. However, many people dislike it and think that it is a humiliation of European nations. Go see it yourself and have your say – the exhibition is prolonged until the end of April, 2010!
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Entropa at DOX | Art & culture | Entry CZK 180
Osadní 739 | Praha 7
Wed – Fri 11:00 – 19:00, Sat – Mon 10:00 – 18:00
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An empty space where the UK should be, how sad, and how appropriate, given our lack of engagement. Europhiles like me should be rather more annoyed by this than the artistic representation of Bulgaria!