Comments on: Any bright ideas, chaps?

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:48:32 +0000

Did they say cutting-edge? How about a guillotine?

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:23:48 +0000

In reply to bob-a-job. Prickly pair.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:38:14 +0000

In reply to independence.

It seems Muscat can’t manage the real anniversary, 50 years, without pandering to the Mintoffjani.

A monument to mark 40 years is by definition an admission of weakness.

Then there’s the minor issue of choosing the perit’s lacklustre attempt at design and try to slick it all up. Because semiotic, symbolic and synthetic it ain’t.

The work of someone who wouldn’t be told his limits were just that, limits.

I don’t know who should take more offence, those who hate that naif piece of literal rendition of a thrid world country or the Mintoffjani who saw in it their path to social acceptance.

The bridge to nowhere had a function, restore space, what will this ‘multi-located’ piece do, if not become an incessant cacophany of Mintoff’s ultimate failure, that of designing that which could exist in time and space?

The brief goes to great pains to justify why Mintoff’s piece has to change, why Muscat tends to align himself but can’t get himself to commemorate the past. That’s called a pastiche.

On with the subliminal ideological enforcements then. Once nothing Mintoff ever made stood the test of time, let’s just have a mental wank. Pitiful.

By: nemesis

nemesis — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:15:33 +0000

For 100,000 euros I think I can just about manage a giant raspberry installation in St George’s Square, audio and visual included.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:14:16 +0000

In reply to midra, pala u moqdief. Mhux wahdek, kien hemm hafna fantasiji u immaginazzjonijiet fertili jallucinaw fl-istordament tal-istupur li waqghu fih hekk kif raw l-immagini. Li hu zgur hu, li ghalkemm ghadda daz-zmien kollu minn fuq Malta u dak is-simbolu ghadha mank saret bajtra wahda Laburista sura ta' nies. Ibda minn Mintoff u spicca f`Muscat li apparentement hu l-akbar xewka Laburista li qatt kellu dan il-pajjiz.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:53:19 +0000

Oh yes ..collective memories hux…like mine trying to go home one Saturday evening and finding the main road leading to my street blocked with huge public works gaffef placing mounds of dirt and soil and rubbish in preparation for welcoming Eddie (Fenech Adami,not Privitera ) the next day.

By: curious

curious — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:08:57 +0000

They don't need to spend a hundred thousand euro. A sign with the words DON'T PROVOCATE ME will do and will explain a lot of the national psyche.

By: Bubu

Bubu — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:49:54 +0000

Something along the lines of Piero Manzoni’s famous canned masterpieces aught to be quite appropriate. On a larger scale perhaps. The LNG tanker clad in black should be able to produce a suitable sample.

By: AE

AE — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 02:50:20 +0000

An iced bun no doubt

Keep an eye also on the Eur1million co-production fund that has been set up.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:55:29 +0000

Oh. My. God.

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