It was probably only a question of time. Recently, in the German city of Düsseldorf, young artist Leon Löwentraut was given a platform to display his “art” on the city’s landmark tower, the Rheinturm. According to this local news article, his work, a light show projected onto the tower, was explicitly dedicated to the UN’s sustainability goals (aka Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030), and the fight against Covid.
The main slogans on display were: “together against corona” and “vaccination = freedom”.
So this artist allowed himself to be instrumentalised to help turn ultimately anti-human agendas into a dystopian reality. In my view, this is not art, this is pure propaganda disguised as art.
What is particularly ironic about this story is that according to this article, during an anti-lockdown demonstration last May in another German city, Freiburg, someone displayed a placard which caused much outrage at the time. It read “vaccination makes free” (“Impfen macht frei”) written in a manner which was an unmistakable reference to the “work makes free” (“Arbeit macht frei”) slogan displayed over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. The person is still being prosecuted.
So just to get this straight: a display of a slogan which criticises our apparent and dramatic loss of freedoms and our simultaneous enslavement to the dark powers that be, that is considered offensive and criminal, whilst an almost identical slogan which is displayed in the context of support for those same dark forces is widely celebrated and considered art.
The writing is on the wall.
