If something annoys me about this new piece of public art* is not that it tries to fit into a space where it doesn't fit, the fact that it had a big enough budget that could have attracted the best artists in the country and in the world, the fact that it stained design as a profession because is attributed to a glass artist who claims he's a designer and not even the fact that it originates in the grinning nod of an ex-communist ex-president.

It bothers me because it lacks meaning: I cannot understand what it says, and I suspect it for actually not saying anything at all. It's a mass of marble and bronze, perfectly devoid of any trace of sentiment or sense.

This could have been a good enough strategy for an artist during the communist era — when having personal opinions was a deadly mistake — to prevent the possibility of a creative act to be hijacked by the official propaganda, or to be misinterpreted and held against the artist, by consciously steering its expression in a meaningless direction. All form, no content. Having no meaning equaled sleeping good at night.

But — and this is ironic — the very monument to express courage to go against the rules is the most pompous, conformist and boring piece of political art, built on the blueprints of communist school of thought.

Having such a bland opinion about the revolution is almost as fucked up as saying that you know, it was kinda better before.

Take the damn thing down!

*I know, I know, art history teaches us that good art is not always good public art. But that doesn't mean bad art makes good public art, either.