Reporters are outside the hospital, waiting for the victim to be discharged
This is in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The creator of this three-tone concrete statue of a rabbit devouring a man is a student at The University of West Bohemia, Adam Trbušek. The art, named Panoptikum, is his bachelor work and took 10 months to form.
Trbušek explained: "The goal of my work was to create a monument, a memorial of current period. It's showing us the state of our society in a way I'm perceiving it. The satirical work illustrates a man imprisoned by the system's mechanism, totally helpless, ill, and devoted to his desires and whims."
The rabbit statue is paraphrasing Goya's painting Saturn Devouring His Son. Goya created the painting in the period of Napoleon seizing Spain.
"We can figuratively feel the destroying grip today. However, the person of a dictator has transformed into a societal phenomenon, where you can hardly pinpoint and accuse particular persons. We've all created it, everyone with their part contributes feeding this monstrum and what's worse we are feeding it with nothing more than ourselves. Moreover, we take care of it and don't take notice it's slowly gnawing the flesh of our limbs away," described Trbušek.
sizeable_interest on January 2nd, 2018 at 15:43 UTC »
Reporters are outside the hospital, waiting for the victim to be discharged
This is in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The creator of this three-tone concrete statue of a rabbit devouring a man is a student at The University of West Bohemia, Adam Trbušek. The art, named Panoptikum, is his bachelor work and took 10 months to form.
Trbušek explained: "The goal of my work was to create a monument, a memorial of current period. It's showing us the state of our society in a way I'm perceiving it. The satirical work illustrates a man imprisoned by the system's mechanism, totally helpless, ill, and devoted to his desires and whims."
The rabbit statue is paraphrasing Goya's painting Saturn Devouring His Son. Goya created the painting in the period of Napoleon seizing Spain.
"We can figuratively feel the destroying grip today. However, the person of a dictator has transformed into a societal phenomenon, where you can hardly pinpoint and accuse particular persons. We've all created it, everyone with their part contributes feeding this monstrum and what's worse we are feeding it with nothing more than ourselves. Moreover, we take care of it and don't take notice it's slowly gnawing the flesh of our limbs away," described Trbušek.
lostwithtime on January 2nd, 2018 at 16:14 UTC »
Lol charged with battery. Classic pun
KikiYuyu on January 2nd, 2018 at 16:35 UTC »
Reminds me of the painting of Cronus eating his kids