Behold Vienna’s Brand New, $1.9 Million Public Art Travesty
The city of Vienna last week unveiled a new $1.9 million public fountain that looks like it was slapped together by a group of snickering fourth-graders playing with Play-Doh.
A new fountain has been unveiled in Vienna, celebrating 150 years of the city's spring water supply.
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) October 30, 2023
This is what they came up with, at a cost of €1.8 million of taxpayers' money…pic.twitter.com/BXPOM3vNbU
Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the city’s public water system, the fountain is the work of Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither, Ali Janka and Tobias Urban — a quartet operating under the name “Gelitin.”
The four freaks who created this insult — in obvious haste — have a portfolio that’s truly repulsive, emphasizing homoerotic perversions and scatology. Here’s an exhibit that is literally sh*t, packaged with vulgar poetry. Note the obscene costumes worn by people at the event…in the presence of small children.
We don’t describe these people as “deviants” lightly. If you think their fountain is terrible — and it sure as &%$# is — thank God it didn’t center on the positively godawful NSFW “art” that Gelitin exhibited in Milan.
Believe it or not, Vienna’s new monstrosity is described by the city government as a “luxury fountain.” It was controversial even before it was unveiled, with residents and the conservative, populist Freedom Party of Austria campaigning against it as a waste of money, but to no avail. Imagine when they actually saw what the money bought.
On the other hand, city official Marcus Franz, a member of the Social Democratic Party, applauded the positively scandalous redistribution of wealth from productive Vienna citizens to four sickos. “Big thanks go to the city of Vienna, which fully financed the anniversary fountain,” he said.
From public art to basic standards of decency, our governments are increasingly dominated by people bent on destroying everything that made Western civilization great.
