It seems that Cerny was stimulated by Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and you can absolutely see the influence. The joking is both disrespectful and undecided. You know he’s taking the piss but it isn’t until the end of time clear at whose cost, except of course for the more obvious targets.
The artwork is a sort of mosaic map of Europe, every country described as a stereotype that in some cases is less than flattering. Bulgaria for example is described as an 8 ton Turkish squat toilet, or else like rather toilets. This is taken by some to symbolize the time when Bulgaria spent under Turkish rule. Betina Joteva, a press officer from the Bulgarian EU office explained the artwork as “a humiliation for the Bulgarian nation and an offence to national dignity.”
For his part, Cerny declare that it is all a bit of fun and that he’s “shocked that certain states don’t have a sense of humor”. If Europe had a big self-confidence, this Entropa artwork would work as a purifying process,” Cerny says.


Bulgaria – represented as a Turkish toilet

Italy – Land o football

Holland – Flood waters have taken over by, just the minarets of mosques able to be seen

France – continue up your status for strikes and bitching

Germany – this was controversial, because the mini-autobahns seem to sort of shaped like swastika.

Spain – characterize as a block of concrete on explanation of all the building that has been a feature of life there.

Denmark – Lego bricks made into the prophet

Poland – priests with gay satisfaction flag

Romania – show as a Dracula place
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February 4th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Looks like shit…flush.