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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDutch city uses penis fountain to rebel against art project
The Guardian:When the Dutch city of Leeuwarden commissioned 11 fountains by modern artists to celebrate being made European capital of culture 2018, it probably didnt expect such stiff opposition.
Internationally renowned sculptors including the British artists Cornelia Parker and Lucy Orta each designed a fountain for one of 11 cities in the province of Friesland. For the city of Workum, Parker took her inspiration from a pair of lions on a 17th-century coat of arms, designing two huge replicas, with water spouting from their claws.
But a group of local artists were not happy with what they saw as the elitist imposition of outside art on their small city. Their response? A crowdfunded 7.5-metre (25ft) fountain adorned with more than 220 wooden penises. Inside is a public toilet. When you flush, the penises start to squirt.
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Dutch city uses penis fountain to rebel against art project (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2018
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Takket
(21,528 posts)1. Why can't they settle their differences with guns and memes like Americans?
Art controversy! Ha! So uncivilized.
Meanwhile were losing our shit over yanni vs laurel while drumpf is destroying the nation
Im so jealous of Dutch problems and how they deal with them.
Zoonart
(11,832 posts)2. I am an artist of Dutch ancestry...
LOL...my peeps don't t disappoint.
OnyxSharpie
(33 posts)3. Hopefully they squirt water. nt