An Israeli artist went to the plaza outside the museum today and brought a small white fiberglass tub, filled it with red water and floating dismembered doll limbs and put a teddy bear on the rim of the tub holding a Swedish flag.And
It was GREAT! Of course the press were all over it with their cameras. The irony was great and the statement was so graphic it put the other exhibit in the shade. (The BBC had the footage of the Ambassador walking around the pool unplugging the lights first).
I don't know who this young artist was but BRAVO! He didn't say a thing; just went about his business setting up the exhibit and when he was finished, there were these childlike doll limbs floating in the red water. Really graphic!
I saw the Israeli doing his exhibit on a BBCWorld Report . . . at the tail end of a story about the Ambassador having a meeting with the Swedish somebody or other (a woman). He and she came out after their meeting (not at the museum) and were making 'nice' on the steps of the government building. Then BBCWorld went to the exhibit, showed the film of the ambassador unplugging the lights as he walked round the big pool [scroll down to "Se attacken mot konstverket"] and finally they showed this young Israeli today out in the cold on the plaza in front of the museum with his bathtub sized or sink-sized white pool which he then filled with red water. The camera panned the press and there were hordes of guys with cameras so someone should have even a 'still' of the exhibit.More here.
A phone interview with Ambassador Mazel and artist Dror Feiler, who comes across as a whiny asshole.
Meanwhile, the Israeli embassy's landlord wants the embassy to move out, and the artists and curator are getting anonymous threats, and the curator is having a nervous breakdown.
You can't make this stuff up.
UPDATE: The poster for the exhibit. All over Stockholm.
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