I say use Jeffrey’s chihuahua as the model for Malta’s Marianne, symbol of the republic
This has now become a farce: government by monument.
It is all so retrograde that it makes me want to lie down and weep.
While the true liberal democracies of Europe celebrate evolving art as the highest form of civilization, and London puts a large blue cockerel on a pillar in one of its most prominent squares, we are still stuck in the pre-war era with our atavistic commemorative symbols.
Only this time round they’re hideously ugly and inept because we’ve long lost the skills required for something that is no longer contemporary.
The Jason Micallef, Toni Abela and Joseph Muscat idea of what constitutes public art: pedestrian symbolism. This aspect of things wasn’t great under the other lot, but these are the pits.
The sufan tal-kewba mastizz bil-lavur u miksi bid-damask ahmar sintetiku of public art – or what is the 21st-century equivalent? Ah yes: stil modern tal-Wenge bil-chrome u hgieg iswed.
I just can’t stand it anymore.
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It’s a dictatorial psyche, there’s nothing else to it.Mark my word
I agree 100%
Joseph needs to take lessons from the Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt (who’s married to the son of Labour Neil Kinnock by the way): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/obamas-mandela-memorial-selfie-who-the-helle-is-thorningschmidt-8998352.html
Ghal lanqas il-monument ghal Joseph Muscat diga lest. Qieghed Hal Luqa qabel ma ddur ghal Lidl.
Joseph Muscat’s monument is his tragic scheme to sell citizenship. It’s what he will be remembered for.
As things are going, I recommend the erection of a giant yellow banana in the new Parliament Square as a monument to Joseph Muscat’s version of the Republic of Malta.
Here, someone’s done it already. I found it on the internet, I swear. Is it 40 years of the Republic we are celebrating next year?
http://blog.just-eat.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/the-big-banana.jpg
Gozo has a much better sense of the aesthetic than Malta. Not that Malta has set a high standard at all with its Luqa penis and deformed couple between zebbug and Mdina on the last bits of open space left – our roundabouts. But Gozo actually has some really beautiful works of art.
This is all the government has to offer.
Circenses.
I think they’ll put it in Marsa to inaugurate the new road. They found the old monument while excavating the new road, imma l-pala tal-bajtra was broken.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s new pet is called Chou.
What a lovely couple they make: Chou-and-Lie.
May I suggest that we start our land reclamation project by shoving that ghastly monument tal-helsien into the sea.
They are acting just like a pack of dogs that want to leave their mark in every nook and cranny of the Maltese islands.
One chihuahua on top of the infamous phallic-shaped statue in Luqa – that symbolises our government and its leader perfectly.
Maybe a phallic pillar with the inscription “ahna ivvotajna lil Joseph”
I’ve already submitted my maquette. It a contemporary take on Piero Manzoni’s oeuvre, without the tins. I think it symbolises the Republic of Malta like nothing else.
You mean with just the contents of the tins, do you?
I that case, I think you are just brilliant.
Muscat’s second republic celebrated by Baxxter’s monumental turd.
The Labour party is basically just trying to really push to bring back Mintoff in any way they can.
All these things are to solidify Mintoff in the psyche of the Maltese.
The PL knew that if they were to lose the last election it would spell the end to them and their Mintoff dream. Now they are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Sadly, Mintoff is not the person on whom we should build the Maltese identity. He was the worst politician we’ve ever had. Personally I don’t think we’ve really had a “father of the Nation” as it were, but the PL certainly want Malta to belong to them.
Building on such a terrible reputation will be very bad for Malta. There was nothing Maltese about Mintoff’s attitudes. Nothing at all.
I think the future monuments for Guido de Marco, Censu Tabone and Dom Mintoff are hideous. Such bad taste and so really ‘lifeless’.
In the USA past presidents have new libraries, art galleries, university endowments and so on for their commemoration.
George Borg Olivier’s statue in Castille Square is also ugly and very much in the same style as those future three.
I love to look at the Independence monument – so full of life, enthusiasm, freedom and all depicted in such a graceful way.
Muscat perhaps (wet) dreams of mimicking totalitarian aesthetics.
Excellent observation. There is indeed something revealing about the sort of politician who wants to erect anachronistic monuments all over the place.
It’s no coincidence that the frightful Tonio Borg was the PN’s monument-erector-in-chief.
I remember with a shudder his (happily failed) efforts to erect a monument to Malta’s war-time fascist sympathizers. It’s a matter of great regret that he succeeded in tipping the balance in favour of the Unborn Child monument in Naxxar, a campaign led by the even more ghastly Paul Vincenti (so fabulously and accurately Daph-slapped in an earlier post on this blog).
Fascinating. So Tonio Borg actually proposed a monument to all British officers who met regularly opposite the palace.
Even the graffiti’s fascist, glorious death and skeletons in every cupboard.
You may think it’s just Tonio Borg and a few other old-school “Stamperija” types, but it’s worse. Much worse.
There are “zaghzagh” in the MZPN who will go on about their ancestors’ deportation to Uganda by the evil “Inglizi”.
I think they’re all anti-British fascist scum. Honestly. It’s no use trying to reason with them. Their great-grandfathers were aiding and abetting the enemy so they deserved everything they got. Actually, they came off rather well, seeing as they all shot to power on their return to Malta.
And don’t get me started on some of the columnists who try to rationalise it all by the most extraordinary sophistry.
The inauguration of Villa Francia was, wrongly, an excuse for more of this rant by the same people.
As though supplying the enemy with detailed maps of the Grand Harbour, as one example, was of no issue.
One would have thought that they might have shown appreciation for the mercy shown them.
Had the proof, in hand, been put on the table then, they would have met with a certain death.
Our illustrious historian never misses an opportunity to state otherwise and attempt to blur actual events.
History is blurred, of course there were convinced blackshirts, some who went around admiring the efforts of Regia, but that shouldn’t exclude the convenient witchhunt from the story.
This is why the predicament of those days has to be explored in full, to eradicate any perpetuation of the poison.
But that requires ruthless analysis, making the PN truly national.
Anything else, and we get Labour.
OK then. If you wish to eradicate the poison you should have many of the senior people in the PN expelled.
I don’t know how Simon Busuttil can hope to build a liberal right party (does he?) with all the fascistophiles hanging about.
I’d start with the unbearably stupid Italianate party hymn. Sbejha o patria indeed. I’m all for shipping the whole bloody lot to Uganda again.