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the_shadock · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: Contemporary art ?????

Here is an installation created by David Cerny and that was put on display in Prague (CZ) :

Such a shame that it was a T-34/85...

Pierre-Olivier

A2_Prius · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 112

Reminds me of the T34/85 in England that was painted "Pepto Bismol pink" a while back! I imagine the white stripe on the Prague installation is a reminder of the marking that invading Warsaw Pact armor sported in August '68.

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Yeah, and my wife STILL wants me to paint up a 1/16th T34 all pink for her. Shocked

Ha ha ... no way. Twisted Evil

tanker2010 · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:52 am Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

Have those Code Pink morons gone worldwide?

TrevorLarkum · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

Those are unusual fittings though - maybe for a dozer, bridgelayer, mineplough, something like that?

Dontos · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:39 am Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

Trevor

It seems that those brackets are on the rear. In my mind, that would tend to omit a dozer or mineplough fittings.

Perhaps a Bridgelayer or something requiring rear support/mounting brackets.

JMHO
Don

JimWeb · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

Its the back end of an SKP-5 crane version I think.

boeman · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 28

Kids these days...

palic · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 172

That piece of ... "art" ... was VT-34 originally, no doubt... The author of this installation is the same "artist" who created Entropa for EU HQ building.

Jeff: tell your wife this "artist" is neither very popular, nor very clever. When he was painting IS-2 (sitting on top of pretty high cube shaped pedestal) in Prague, he was sitting on the barrel and painting it and moving his butt forward and painting the barrel again till the certain moment all the barrel was painted pink and that clever guy was ... sitting on the very muzzle brake. Wink

TrevorLarkum · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

I agree it's some kind of recovery vehicle, I hadn't thought of that. Here's a CW-34 (VT-34) with very similar fittings:

preservedtanks.com/Det...hotoID=425

palic · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 172

Trevor, you are dead right, both CW-34 and VT-34 are recovery variants of T-34, CW-34 was designed and produced in Poland and VT-34 was designed and produced in former Czechoslovakia. It is possible to say they are look-a-like vehicles. I say VT-34 was used for that "art" because I can not imagine Cerny would buy CW-34 in Poland to import that to the Czech Republic, hope you can understand.

TrevorLarkum · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

No, I'm sure you're right it's a VT-34 - I just happen to have pictures of a CW-34 and no pictures of a VT-34 to hand, and I understand they are nearly identical.

the_shadock · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: Contemporary art ?????

- palic

Trevor, you are dead right, both CW-34 and VT-34 are recovery variants of T-34, CW-34 was designed and produced in Poland and VT-34 was designed and produced in former Czechoslovakia. It is possible to say they are look-a-like vehicles. I say VT-34 was used for that "art" because I can not imagine Cerny would buy CW-34 in Poland to import that to the Czech Republic, hope you can understand.

I guess they were both produced after the world war two..

P-O

palic · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 172

Definitely these are post war vehicles... By the way P-O, can you imagine any development and production of T-34/85 based vehicle in former Czechoslovakia during WW2? I mean during war when Czechoslovakia was under Nazi occupation? Wink