Schweden: israel. Dplomat zerstört Kunstwerk (mL)

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Israel's ambassador to Sweden destroys artwork in Stockholm museum

By Haaretz Service and Reuters



STOCKHOLM - Israel's ambassador to Sweden destroyed an artwork depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber in a Stockholm museum on Friday, Swedish radio reported on Saturday.




The artwork, entitled"Snow White and the Madness of Truth," consisted of a rectangular basin filled with red water on which floated a boat carrying a portrait of Islamic Jihad suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed herself and 21 others in an attack at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa on October 4.

Ambassador Zvi Mazel was among the guests at the opening of the Historical Museum's exhibition linked to an international anti-genocide conference to be held in Stockholm from January 26 to 28.

Public service SR radio news said Mazel furiously ripped out electrical wires attached to the artwork and threw a spotlight in the basin.

"This was not a piece of art," Mazel told SR."It was a monstrosity. An obscene distortion of reality."

The artists who created the piece are Dror Feiler an Israeli who resides in Sweden, and Gunilla Skold Feiler, his Swedish wife. Feiler, who described the ambassador's actions as"vandalism" was to have performed at the exhibition, but announced that he would not perform as long as Mazel was present, Israel Radio reported. Museum director Kristian Berg then requested that Mazel leave, and escorted him out of the exhibition hall.

"The artwork was supposed to call attention to how weak people left alone can be capable of horrible things," said Feiler. He went on to say that Mazel"tried to stop free speech and free artistic expression from being carried out in Sweden."

Berg said he realized the installation may have been emotional for Mazel, but that destroying art was unacceptable.

"If you don't like what you see, you can leave the premises," he told SR.

The Foreign Ministry said that the display was a violation of understandings between Israel and Sweden. Israel has demanded that the museum remove the art installation, Israel Radio reported.

Mazel will be asked to explain his attack to the Foreign Ministry next week, spokeswoman Anna Larsson said."We will ask him to explain and from our side we will maintain that it is unacceptable to destroy works of art in this way," Larsson said.

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