[Leica] Nathan's PAD 25/2/2022: a morning walk in Copenhagen

[Nathan Wajsman]

I am now back in Alicante, but since my flight only left Copenhagen in the afternoon, I had some time in the morning. The weather was not good, but I wanted to see an art exhibition at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. It opened at 10, and I got there a bit early, so I want for a walk in the neighbourhood. The neighbourhood in this case includes the Parliament and various other government buildings. Behind the Parliament building are the royal stables. The horses need their exercise, even though the Queen has not been riding in her carriage around Copenhagen for the past couple of years for reasons we all know. But now things are returning to normal, so the horses have to get ready:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-5wgxWG7/A

While walking back to the museum, I passed Dantes Plads (Dante Square) and saw an amazing sculpture that was not there when I last visited this spot last year. Turns out that it is the work of Jens Galschiøt, a Danish sculptor who was in the news late last year, when his sculpture in Hong Kong, commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, was destroyed by the Chinese regime. Here, the sculpture was installed last year, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. But it is more than that. It is also part of a protest against plans to build an underground car park here. The people living around the square worry about the added traffic and question the need given Copenhagen’s push to get cars out of the centre as much as possible:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Njhhq6W/A

Dante gives a finger to the plans:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VQhRb3Q/A

And the local politicians who approved the car park are portrayed rather unflatteringly:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-bJKQ3C3/A
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-tLM45kg/A

Cheers,
Nathan 

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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