Frieze anmelder Socle du Monde Biennale

Det kendte kunsttidsskrift Frieze har anmeldt Socle du Monde Biennale på Heart (det tidligere Herning Kunstmuseum, red.). Det er Robert Barry, der har skrevet anmeldelsen. Han fremkommer blandt andet med en bizar kommentar om Dansk Folkeparti:

"Though the theme seemed absurd at first, I had perhaps underestimated the degree to which Geoffroy (French-born, Copenhagen-based Thierry Geoffroy, red.) had chosen this topic as a deliberately pointed provocation at this specific audience. The area of Jutland where the Heart Museum is situated is the heartland of the People’s Party’s (Dansk Folkeparti, red.) voter base. And though no-one I danced with would admit to supporting Kjærsgaard (Pia Kjærsgaard, red.) themselves, several told me that their previous partner had insisted it was only the far right that were saving Denmark from civil war. Evidently sometimes it is not just our critical aesthetics, but equally our basest prejudices that must be voiced through the other. But if Manzoni’s Socle suggests the redundancy of human aesthetics before the sublime beauty of the world, Herning’s Biennale insists that art still has something to say."

http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/socle-du-monde-biennale/

Robert Barry påstår, at Herning er Dansk Folkepartis "heartland". Det er imidlertid ikke rigtigt. Ved folketingsvalget i 2007 fik Dansk Folkepari 13,0 procent af stemmerne i Herning Nord-kredsen. I Herning Syd fik Dansk Folkeparti 13,8 procent af stemmerne. På landsplan fik Dansk Folkeparti13,8 procent af stemmerne. Dansk Folkeparti fik dermed et ringere resultat i Herning Nord/Syd end på landsplan.