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Re: Is this "a joke " ???
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:11:28 GMT
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Dej'an wrote:
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> > [snip]
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> > Those were not real sets and were never sold. They were made by an artist
> > who had TLC to back one of his projects. If I recall correctly, he was
> > originally supposed to build a hospital, but that somehow turned to a
> > concentration camp. Lego was not happy with the result.
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> Hmm, still , sounds pretty strange to me - boxes etc. If they backed him up
> with hospital or whatever like they haven't seen what they were producing -
> I mean someone (who is not blind) had to made all the boxes etc. if that
> was him - and he used TLC nam, logos and everything why didn't they sue
> him , on the other hand if they build those things upon his idea they could
> have
> been aware of the result before even "putting the ideas into machines" ?
Here are some quotes from the webpage that should answer your questions:
"Libera created his piece by assembling Lego blocks into replicas of
death camp facilities, photographing them and then using the photos to
adorn authentic-looking Lego cardboard packages, complete with the
disassembled pieces, the company logo and multi-language safety
warnings."
"The display is so unsettling in its playful simplicity that the Lego
Group, which sponsors Lego art contests and donates thousands of plastic
pieces to artists around the world, tried to persuade Libera to withdraw
it from public view. Only when lawyers became involved did the company
give up.
"It is a theme that is so sensitive to so many people in so many
countries," said Peter Ambeck-Madsen, Lego's director of public
relations at the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark. "If we had
known before what he was going to do, we never would have given him the
bricks. But we talked about it and decided [that] to make a big thing
about it now would only draw more attention."
-chris
> Dejan
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> > greg
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| .. Yes that explains it ... Artists ... it seems that every idiot with his morbid ideas could call himself an artist !!! That's not art that's stupidity ... he really ruined my day ! Lego is a toy ! Children play with all those doctors (from town (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hmm, still , sounds pretty strange to me - boxes etc. If they backed him up with hospital or whatever like they haven't seen what they were producing - I mean someone (who is not blind) had to made all the boxes etc. if that was him - and he (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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