Like Damien Hirst's famous formaldehyde-filled sculpture, Czech artist David Cerny's Shark features a killer in murky green fluid. Only this one is a bound Saddam Hussein in his underpants, an image too volatile for the mayor of the Belgian town of Middelkerke: he banned it from the Beaufort 2006 arts festival opening in April.See Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991).
Stumbled onto your blog (via cursor.org I think) and have really enjoyed it. I linked to you twice over at http://www.baltimoregroupblog.com.
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