Now heres something you dont see everyday...

[SteamWake]

1,250 'Nazi' garden gnomes on display :O:


STRAUBING, Germany — A German artist is posing 1,250 garden gnomes with their arms outstretched in the stiff-armed Hitler salute in an installation that he calls a protest of lingering fascist tendencies in German society.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565983,00.html?test=latestnews

[Nisgeis]

1,230 black gnomes and one of the 20 gold ones gets the photo shoot? Definate racism.

Besides, the gnomes can't be Nazis, unless they actually joined the Nazi party, which as far as I am aware, was disbanded. Perhaps Neo-Nazi Gnomes would be more accurate, but perhaps somewhat alliterative.

Anyway, not focussing on the black gnomes was inspired, the nazis would be proud to pretend only the gold ones existed. How racist is fox news?!

NB: Posted in the spirit of hysteria that seems to have gripped the GT forum. Hurrah for overreactions!

[AVGWarhawk]

THis will probably not end well.

[Nisgeis]

THis will probably not end well.

Lol, sometimes the correct response to art work is: Your work has no merits at all and is not relevant culturally. Germans don't want to be constantly reminded of the Nazis and blamed for it, after all the vast majority of them had nothing to do with the whole thing.

I am assuming that his plan is not to sell the 'work of art' as a whole, but to sell it off individually, in which case the gold gnomes will be the prizes. Come purchase your chintz.

EDIT: Yes, he is not harking back to a time he remembers, or anything like that, he is just trying to profit on the really cliche'd German/Nazi association, which seems like a poor straw to grasp in his late career.

[Tribesman]

That is funny.
filling the town square with nazi gnomes .
Is there any better way to react when they wanted to block the display of a single gnome in an art gallery?