blaue invasion plastic soldiers, subway map, adhesives, photo printed
on posters, advertisement
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phase 2 for the second phase of the invasion, loughnane printed hundreds posters of a blue soldier he constructed especially for the image. during the week of april 1, 2001 he rented advertisment space on several hundred kultur & szene kiosks in munich to initiate the second and final phase of his project. pictured below are the preliminary sketch for the poster, a poster prototype, and an image of one of the posters hung by the city of munich. though a press release was sent to all of the major newspapers in germany, both phases of the project were ignored until an unassuming person happened to photograph one of the soldiers from phase 1 after september 11, 2001 and sent it to the süddeutsche zeitung in october of 2001, where it appeared in jetzt magazin, issue #42. another interesting fact is that the entire project was placed under investigation by isreal, while the german press and munich art scene remained oblivious to the silent invasion until it became more politically relevant. |
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