{"id":16739,"date":"2021-01-26T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=16739"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:32:26","slug":"hungary-outrage-over-black-lives-matter-art-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/hungary-outrage-over-black-lives-matter-art-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary: Outrage over &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; art installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Hungarian capital of Budapest, a temporary 3D-printed art installation is heating up right-wing conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The artwork &#8211; a kneeling Statue of Liberty raising her right hand into a fist and holding a plaque with the inscription &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; &#8211; is only about one metre high and consists of twelve parts produced in a 3-D printing process. The &#8220;paraphrase of the Statue of Liberty&#8221;, as the artist P\u00e9ter Szalay calls the installation, is held together by magnets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16742\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16742\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16742 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BLM_Skulptur_Ungarn-615x669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BLM_Skulptur_Ungarn-615x669.jpg 615w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BLM_Skulptur_Ungarn-215x234.jpg 215w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BLM_Skulptur_Ungarn-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BLM_Skulptur_Ungarn.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture by P\u00e9ter Szalay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the background to his artwork, P\u00e9ter Szalay told Deutsche Welle: &#8220;The &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; movement has a huge impact on our global society, of which I am a part. Picking up on that was my artistic intention.&#8221; With the colours of the rainbow, he wanted to draw attention to the curtailment of human rights of the LGBTIQ* community in Hungary, the artist said.<\/p>\n<p>The artist is relaxed about the risk of the sculpture being destroyed: &#8220;I don&#8217;t condemn those who want to destroy my sculpture. If it happens, I will document it and consider it part of my work,&#8221; Szalay said in an interview with The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Budapest Black Lives Matter artwork sparks rightwing backlash <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aeNDm1TpM6\">https:\/\/t.co\/aeNDm1TpM6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Guardian (@guardian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1346327214057517056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Violent and radical left?<\/h2>\n<p>Representatives of the right-wing populist government, however, consider this movement violent and radical left-wing. Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s chief of staff Gergely Guly\u00e1s even accused the initiators of the art action of racism. &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; is a despotic movement that wants to destroy everything white, Christian and conservative and rewrite history. Therefore, according to Guly\u00e1s, Black Lives Matter is a racist movement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black Lives Matter is basically a racist movement. The racist is not the person who opposes a BLM statue, but the person who erects one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pro-government media is helping to hype the issue. As a result, the myth of a &#8216;monument to gay blacks&#8217; is circulating among the population. Elsewhere, commentators on pro-government TV shows have compared the art installation to the erection of a monument to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>District mayor is threatened<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baranyikrisztinakepviselo\/photos\/1841787762627171\">Krisztina Baranyi<\/a>, who is supported by the opposition, is under massive criticism, not only because the art tender was financed by public money. In an interview with Deutsche Welle, the borough&#8217;s mayor explained that she was used to groundless criticism from the pro-government media, but now she was being called names. She was even threatened with rape and acid attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet,&#8221; says Baranyi, &#8220;all we wanted was to give young Hungarian artists a chance to show their art in the public space&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Hungarian capital Budapest, a temporary 3D-printed art installation is heating up right-wing conservatives. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/hungary-outrage-over-black-lives-matter-art-installation\/\"><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"showAllLink\">more&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[6,334,1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16739"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16841,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions\/16841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}