Saddam and Star Wars @ the Tate Art Museum

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8480966.stm

via: bantha.de

The huge swords that span Saddam Hussein's old parade ground in Baghdad were built by the former Iraqi leader as a symbol of his battles with the Iranians during the 1980s.

 

Now a young American artist, Michael Rakowitz, has been investigating the connection between the monument and the movie Star Wars, and he has an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.

The reference is rather flimsy, but the idea is that fun kind of preposterous, which could be true.

(can anyone rip the vid?)

Aunty Em it's a twister....or it's Turner spinning in his grave.

He quotes a pretty dumb bit of poster art and it's slight similarity to a real life (and better made) piece of cheesy sculpture and makes a 'work' that has even less to do with either piece of source material.

This is why I never made a bean out of my art degree I was too busy actually trying to do art than building rubbish giant toys.

I bet it sells too, even in todays bizarre economic situation.

Meanwhile real people are dying in Iraq everyday.

Someone could have made the same statement in an animated gif for a forum like this one, distributed it for free and reached more of an audience but then he wouldn't be anonymous or taken seriously by the chin strokers.

There is more art in some of the signature graphics at the bottom of some of the posts on this board.