Enartete Kunst von Hans Bellmer? Mozart? Aida? Verboten!
Bange koensthisterische dames van Whitechapel. Tentoonstelling Bellmer gaat dicht. (Paris Calling) (Obsessive witness to horror, FT) ( Kunstaspecte ) Moslims hebben dezelfde tenen als de Nazi’s. Bellmers “Puppen” waren al eens eerder “entartete Kunst” verklaard. Mevrouw Iwona Blazwick van Whitechapel heeft zich net als de boven haar gestelden Blair & Blair het denkraam van Goebbles aangemeten. Gefeliciteerd! Een schot in de roos Iwona! Braaf, braaf mevrouw - ”I tried to protest, the move was a little excessive but there’s no need to make a fuss about it” -de la Beaumelle. U heeft uw baantje behouden.
De ironie wil nl. dat Hans Bellmer zijn Puppen maakte om het lichaamsfetisjisme van de Nazi’s te provoceren. Duidelijk is dat zijn kunst destijds ook “verboten” werd en zelf moest vluchten. Ik geloof dat hij voor oorlog al in Parijs zat.
( The disturbing surrealism of Hans Bellmer gets a massive retrospective at the Whitechapel. There would be no Chapman Brothers or Chris Cunningham without these mesmerising erotic drawings and dark photos.) – FG
(Gezocht: La Poupée)
( Dan toch iets verlichter? de heren stelden de “entartete Kunst” nog wél even ten toon.)
Zijn er nog Bellmers geboren lately? Anders hebben we met deze conformisten geen ayatollah’s meer nodig –h
PS. uiteraard in de Pravda’s van +31 geen woord over deze feiten.
PARIS (Reuters) – A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.
The director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum’s curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters.
“The motive was simply to not shock the population of the Whitechapel neighbourhood, which is partly Muslim,” she said.
The Whitechapel area in east London is home to many ethnic minorities including a large Bangladeshi community.
The gallery issued a statement saying that some works were not included in the exhibition because of space constraints but declined to comment specifically on what Beaumelle said.
Last week, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper reignited a heated debate in Europe over free speech and had to fend off charges of cowardice after it cancelled performances of Mozart’s “Idomeno”, fearing they could enrage Muslims and pose a security risk.
Beaumelle said the exhibition had already been to Paris and Munich without provoking any protests and Bellmer, who died in 1975, is well-known in the art world, which made the decision by gallery director Iwona Blazwick all the more surprising to her.
Bellmer’s work includes dolls of naked young girls.
“It surprised me because Bellmer’s work is very well known. She already knew it well and by committing to take our exhibition she must have known what would be on the walls,” Beaumelle said.
“I tried to protest,” she said, adding that the move was “a little excessive but there’s no need to make a fuss about it”.
The gallery may also have removed some art depicting young girls because it was worried about the reaction of anti-paedophile groups, Beaumelle added.
The exhibition runs from September 20 until November 19, according to the gallery’s Web site.
(Additional reporting by Mike Collett-White in London)
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