Art showing Isil menacing Sylvanian Families removed from exhibition

Telegraph ^ | 9-26-15 | Telegraph writers

[windcliff]

The Passion for Freedom exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London was intended to highlight the work of "courageous artists" fighting censorship and highlighting oppression around the world.

But one group of works, showing animals from the Sylvanian Families range of toys being menaced by other figurines dressed in the clothes of Isil fighters, has been removed from the show on the advice of the police.

'MICE-IS', a collection of seven tableaux by an artist known as Mimsy, was selected to appear in the six-day exhibition, which closes today.

Speaking to The Telegraph in March, Mimsy explained that she had decided to go under a pseudonym when presenting her work to "avoid any possibility of beheading".

Organisers at the Mall Galleries were contacted by Westminster Police before the show opened on September 21, and were told that the inclusion of the work would lead to extra policing costs which would be passed on to the artist or gallery.

Having been presented with a figure of some £36,000 for security, the gallery's board met and decided to remove the work from the exhibition.

[windcliff]

[Lurker]

OFFS. Churchill and Thatcher must be doing 35,000 RPM by now.

[JimSEA]

That is offensive? I guess then that ISIS beheadings and other ingenious was of killing that they regularly post to the Internet are not. Well at least they are inclusive because they kill every minority and don’t exclude anybody from their bloodfest.

[MarvinStinson]

Speaking to The Telegraph in March,

Mimsy explained that she had decided to go under a pseudonym when presenting her work to “avoid any possibility of beheading”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks windcliff.

[2banana]

The lesson is - when you are unarmed or disarmed - you are a weak victim hoping for mercy from thugs and goons.

Even Winnie the Pooh had a rifle to protect his honey.