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The Annoying Gift: How to Offend a Village Community (2018)

In 1997, the Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg was commissioned to design a sculpture for the washhouse of a village in Burgundy. Instead of accepting the commission, he wrote the villagers a letter that truly “cleaned up” – telling them the truth about their decaying living environment. This marked the beginning of one of the most remarkable projects of the New Patrons.


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