On the streets of Poland, Peter Fuss recently put up a rather controversial piece: “Who Killed Barack Obama?”. Curious to know what his intent and message was, we asked….
Here’s the reply we received today:
Hi
This is not a piece of work against Obama, as much as it is not an act of support for McCain. Neither is this work about less or more probable Obama’s assassination. This piece of art is about global thought of Obama’s unavoidable death. About the fact that so many people in the entire world share one opinion: Barack Obama is to follow the same story as Kennedy, Lincoln, M.L.King or Malcolm X previously did. And this is due to various reasons: cause he is young, alike Kennedy, cause his black, because he is ready for the radical change. Politicians fall into the same stereotype of thinking. Even Hillary Clinton expressed the same view.
It is interesting, that on the one hand, people take pride in democracy, they believe that through taking part in elections they have an real impact on the shape of politics and they determine the future of countries and societies. On the other hand, the same people do realise, that politics is a dirty cynical game and that an individual, like Obama, indentified with hope and progress, the change of the current status quo, those individuals are, sooner or later, to loose, to be condemned to death. Unless they became a part of the current status quo.
Best
peter
1 response so far ↓
Skylar // January 21, 2009 at 10:16 pm |
Stuff like this is sensational and that's why it gets any mention at all on the 'net. After seeing some of the Obama Art out there, people like Fuss choose to try to shock people into noticing the work. He's a ghoul, and not a terribly talented one. Waste of a wall.