During the Second World War, the Nazis occupied the island of Crete. The islanders resisted. Every member of the Wehrmacht killed was avenged by blowing up an ancient sculpture. The sculptures were more important to the art-loving commander of the occupying forces than a human life. Their "death" was documented with memorial plaques. The story was told to me by Lakis Jordanopoulos. I immediately thought of the Taliban, who had just destroyed the two largest Buddha sculptures in the world. The contempt for humanity shown by various totalitarian regimes and fundamentalist systems of thought is strangely complemented by a contempt for art, a contempt for human cultural creation. As part of the Nimsavusturya exhibition, Hüseyin Isik carried out an explosives operation. A sculpture that was smeared with racist, sexist, nationalist, etc. slogans was blown up.

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