Who's behind it?

Some acknowledge it, some play with it and others deny it completely. Identity in contemporary fine art generates many questions: Is a piece of art inseparably connected to a specific face, or can it exist on its own? And does an artist have a right to our respect for his or her wish to work anonymously, even though we know who he or she is? There are several events that suggest the importance of these thoughts and that are currently affecting the local fine art scene.

Author's ego
She calls herself Toy_Box and she annoyed the Government Office. She even had to present the police with her ID card with her true name. Toy_Box is a cartoonist who is famous, among other things, for her stories about a depressed sugar cube discussing its existential problems with a cup of tea. When Toy_Box saw a giant sugar cube, the symbol of the Czech EU presidency, in front of the Government Office, she could not help herself. She took a marker and drew frowning eyes and lips, the visual attributes of Toy_Box's cartoon character, on the sculpture. The Office fined her CZK 1,000 and removed the sugar cube for cleaning, so it probably will not be back before the end of our presidency.

At the same time,

David Černý

announced he would prematurely remove his Entropa from the Brussels seat of the EU Council because he disagreed with the way the government of …