Israeli Amb To Sweden Destroys Museum Art Work
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - 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 art installation, 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 Hanadi Jaradat, who killed herself and 19 others
in an attack in the Israeli port city of Haifa in October.
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 art work 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."
Kristian Berg, the museum's director, said he realised 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.
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