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

[Don Dory]

Imagine that,  politicians and bureaucrats as pigs...

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 4:03 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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> 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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