The Impossibility of Reason in an Age of Insanity

Apparantly the mayor of Beligan city Middelkerke decided to put away the installation Shark by David Cerny. The piece is a parody of Damien Hirst’s The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, but instead of a shark Cerny displays a wax puppet in formaldehydrate, looking like Saddam Hussein.

For some strange reason the mayor of Middelkerke thought that Shark might be offensive to muslims. If anything, it’s offensive to the British, I’d say. The obvious target of Cerny’s sarcasm in this case is Hirst. Why would anyone else take offense?