...or Maurizio Cattelan's?
A decade ago, the Bremen Totempole Animals were located in the square outside the Opera House. This was apparently part of celebrations for the 10th anniversary of German Reunification. Note the bicycle chain in the background, also part of the festivities. Germans are weird.
Now they are older and more settled in their ways, and they prefer to stay inside the Kunstmuseum.
So far the Bremen city fathers have not commissioned a plastinated version of the Totempole Animals from von Hagens, but it can only be a matter of time.There are laws --
I don't know if anyone has studied them -- that determine which prominent part of a statue's anatomy tourists will choose to stroke for good luck, when it is erected in a public place.Probably it is just as well that in this case the sculptor omitted the donkey's dick.
Bonus Maurizio Cattelan:
Another taxidermied dog, and a bicycle, Cattelan's preferred mode of transport around Manhattan, often referred to as his "girlfriend."
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I tried riding my bicycle around Manhattan, and soon gave it up out of concerns for my health.
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I don't understand why there isn't a tiny bicycle at the top of the animal totem pole.
Or a Bremen bicycle totem pole, with a suitable bike standing in for each animal: a cargo trike on the bottom for the donkey, then a dirt bike, racing bike, and unicycle.
He certainly keeps himself busy.
I don't understand why there isn't a tiny bicycle at the top of the animal totem pole.
Suffice to say that Bremen is an odd place even by German standards. Also I like it very much and keep going back there.
Yyyyeah you'd kind of think that putting the skin back in the animal would be in line with the whole reunification vibe. But, 'Tiere sind auf der jeweils anderen. alles in Ordnung ist' has a certain ring to it.
Also Smut if you're near the coast of Sussex gimme a bell on my blog.
Alas, I am currently in Birmingham, bound for Liverpool tomorrow. Time in London was brief.
Too easy.
Now they are older and more settled in their ways, and they prefer to stay inside the Kunstmuseum.
What better security system could there be?
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