At the Berlin Biennale Czech artist Martin Zet has issued a call to collect a lot of books so that he can make art out of them.
The book in question is a controversial one:
The book in question is a controversial one:
With over 1.3 million copies sold Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany gets rid of itself) by Thilo Sarrazin is the most successful political non-fiction publication of a German author of the post-war period. The Czech artist Martin Zet now starts the campaign "Deutschland schafft es ab" (Germany gets rid of it) in the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale.What's the plan ?
The artist calls to collect at least 60,000 copies, which is in fact less than 5 percent of the total edition. The books will be shown in an installation at the 7th Berlin Biennale; after the exhibition they will be recycled for a good purpose.Apparently that 'recycling'-idea has some people worried -- as, for example, JTA puts it: German artist's plans to collect books likened to Nazi book burnings. (Funny how someone they refer to in the piece itself as "Czech artist Martin Zet" is turned into a 'German artist' for the Nazi-invoking headline .....)