Wednesday, 26 August 2009

The art of persuasion!

How to get people to do the most incredible things. I guess that is something everyone asks him or herself every day.
Then look at this guy and you'll know how to do that, but be sure to have an original and funny idea.

And I think this is somewhere in Copenhagen (København). I think I recognize the pavement to be somewhere on Strøget and it is called Gråbrødre Torv and the design of the tiles is made by a famous -in Denmark- artist called Bjørn Nørgaard. He is now a Professor at the Art Academy in Copenhagen and he got very famours back in the sixties where he and his girlfriend slaughtered an old horse on a little island between Denmark and Sweden, and after that they cut it into small pieces and put the parts in sealed glases and excibited these.
A lot of people were devastated at that time, and a serious discussion started and everybody condemmed this "murder" of an old horse in the name of art.
At the same time there was a war going on in Vietnam. Everyday lots of dead and lots of suffering. But that didn't interest many, but this poor old horse was in the news for a long time.

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