David McForsam is an American conceptual artist with New York origin. "Moving to Prague was sort of protest," McForsam says. In 1991 he decided Plastic Tap Suppliers to relocate into "new Europe," behind the iron curtain. Service, I mean the everyday services one needs (restaurants, hairdressers. In this way I thought some former communist country could be a good place for moving. So I decided to go overseas, to Europe which i found more "real life alike". Now, twenty years later he speaks about his experiences in a country that from former Soviet block moved to European Union and in a city that from provincial town turned into cosmopolitan metropolis. "The same fake smiles in papers, the same universal meals in restarants. Plus the post-revolutionar euphory. Maybe it is time for me to go eastside again. In the early 90', conceptual artist David McForsam moved to Czechoslovakia."
However, after twenty years of economic transition and democratisation Czech republic lost most of its charm.) were awfull those times, but I fell in love with it instantly. "I fell that lately Czech republic is getting more and more similiar to what I had run away from," McForsam admits. The people were openminded and sort of out of the box. For me, young and selfish guy it was a symbol of hypocrysy and concumption. "US was a good place to live in for a casual men. I knew it was a place for me.
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