http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/macedonian-artists-keep-silent-over-skopje-2014
While foreigners are often caustic in their appreciation of Skopje’s controversial revamp, some comparing it to Disneyland, the local artistic community is keeping strangely quiet.As the government-sponsored facelift of the Macedonian capital, dubbed Skopje 2014, gains new additions almost every month, it is drawing increasingly vocal criticism from the outside world.Foreign experts often mock the revamp or compare the effects to those of Disneyland. Many question its architectural and aesthetic values and find its politically imposed obsessions with the artistic styles of Classical Antiquity anachronistic.
Back at home, however, artists, architects and city planners seem strangely reluctant to raise their voices.
One possible explanation for this critical silence is that many are engaged in projects connected to the costly makeover that pay their bills.Culture expert Robert Alagjozovski says many artists face a dilemma.
“On one hand their profession is finally getting its recognition and they’re earning big salaries, but on the other hand, their talent has to make compromises with kitschy political orders,” he said.
“Caught between the hammer and the anvil, they’d rather stay silent,” he added.
Alagjozovski explains that “artists are careful about the hand that feeds them. They don’t have any interest in biting it.”
), а вмровците се бунат.
Битно никогаш не е досадно.
