I see we’re moving with the times

Published: May 27, 2014 at 7:57pm

Kenneth Mao 1




42 Comments Comment

  1. Dissident says:

    What does he think of himself, some Andy Warhol?

    • bob-a-job says:

      Nah. Just plain Kenny Arsehol.

      I wonder how much of that trash he’ll be selling in the south.

      • anthony says:

        Please don’t call him arsehole.

        That might be enough to precipitate an orgasmic rapture.

  2. observer says:

    Ic-coff nehhieh. It-tbissima ta’ laghqi zammha.

    Donnu nesa’ li Chou En Lai ilu snin shah li m’ghadux maghna u li anki niesu stess warrbuh.

    Vera li “issa jista” – jekk, izda, jsib lil min ihallih.

    • Aunt Hetty says:

      That is Mao Tse Dong not Chou En Lai.

      • observer says:

        Thanks. Couldn’t determine which of the two ‘champions’.
        I think it was Mao’s wife, too, who has also been ‘dethroned’.

    • P Shaw says:

      Laghqizmu sew! and it definitely pays.

      Recently he went on a holiday to Washington DC free of charge, paid by the Maltese taxpayer and organized by the twice-married, twice-divorced husband-hunter who loves to cut trees and trim bushes.

      • Jozef says:

        Details.

      • P Shaw says:

        May 15 – 17, excluding travel days.

        The three day trip was organized and paid in the context of a single hour lecture to the Americans on Baroque in Malta. As if they care! Anyway, such a lecture could have been done online using modern technology.

        http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=4716&NWID=4862

        Not sure whether he stayed at the ambassador’s house or whether he stayed at one of the very expensive Washington DC hotels during the three nights’ stay there. Maybe Kenneth Zammit Tabona is also afraid of the trees surrounding the ambassador’s house or maybe the ambassador had a man in her bed who she did not want to share with her Maltese guest.

    • Last Post says:

      Dan bis-serjeta’ jew fis-sakra?

      Din tal-biza’ daqskemm hi ma titwemminx!

  3. Marlowe says:

    They’ve started doing the satire themselves?

  4. A.Attard says:

    Ferhan li hu bahnan.

  5. Makjavel says:

    It’s telling that he poses with a portrait of Chairman Mao rather than with one of the world’s most iconic news photographs: that of a lone student about to be mown down by a tank in Tianamen Square.

    http://www.makingchangenow.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tiananmen-square.jpg

    • Horrible memories says:

      I will never forget the scenes of that awful day, and am still in disbelief that it wasn’t enough to instigate a revolution. I remember all too clearly protesting on the streets here in Malta. Where was Astrid Vella, and I would love to see her protest against the Chinese.

      • Joe Grech says:

        I don’t know why you’re bringing Astrid Vella into this, but now that you mention it, Astrid was right there, protesting with us when we held a protest outside the Chinese Embassy during the visit of some Chinese bigwig, a few years ago. Time for an apology?

        Ironically enough, this was just a few doors up from Kenneth’s flat in St Julian’s.

  6. edgar says:

    He reminds me of the proverbial angel, Jidhaq bil musmar f’sorm*.

  7. Tim Ripard says:

    Vile and viler

  8. Dame BD says:

    Few things are more tragic than adolescents three years short of their Kartanzjan.

  9. pale blue my foot! says:

    The grin of a quasi-60 year old with the IQ of a 12-year old.

  10. Mike says:

    Posing with a picture of a man guilty of more deaths than Adolf Hitler and Iosef Stalin combined. Charming.

  11. Grezz says:

    As his Facebook crowd would say, WTF?

  12. Wigi says:

    He should take a look at this instead:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

  13. P Shaw says:

    Joseph Muscat and Sai Mizzi are indoctrinating him pretty well. Maybe he is exploring a new market for his worthless and amateur watercolours.

  14. anthony says:

    He has switched yet again.

    From Jo to Mao.

  15. M. Cassar says:

    Was this on the ‘to do to get the flat in Valletta’ list or has he gotten that already?

    So much for the ‘artists identify with free thinking and such’ idea. Or has China become the champion of democracy while we were not looking?

    Oh and by the way, what is Maltese high society high on?

  16. Matthew S says:

    Did it really have to come to this?

    And to think that Zammit Tabona was once considered as a rather smart guy and a bit of an intellectual.

    How very, very sad.

  17. Rumplestiltskin says:

    As Alice said down the rabbit hole: Curioser and curioser.

  18. Natalie Mallett says:

    He’s in with the Chinese who bought into the IIP scheme and need to decorate their newly acquired property in Europe. The poor guy needs to earn a living.

  19. nev says:

    Fidil.

  20. John Higgins says:

    Veru waqa’ baxx Kenneth. Mela m’ghadux ibih pitturi lil Maltin minn mindu sar switcher. Shame on you Kenneth you lost all your friends’ respect.

  21. Living in the past. If the artist wants to ingratiate himself with the close collaborators of the present Maltese government he should have chosen a better representative of modern China.

    It is now a known historical fact that the Long March of Communist Mao Zedong was not the heroic epic that he made it out to be.

    It was more of a diversion to give the Japanese to opportunity to destroy his local rivals, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek.

    Mao’s legacies are the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, both of which harmed China in a spectacular way.

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