Good feelings towards Slovakia today! From the deliciously-named Hungarian-Slovak portal bumm.sk we learn that a trio of young Slovak artists have put together an exhibition of paintings parodying the anti-Magyar ravings of Jan Slota, chairman of Slovak nationalist party SNS.
Among the works on display are one which depicts a hairy, “Mongoloid” man with a pony of the sort Slota said was “the ancestor of Hungarians,” while another depicts former Foreign Minister Kinga Göncz – whom Slota once razzed in the most ungentlemanly of ways – as a witch.
Weirdly, while the three artists – Radovan Čerevka, Tomáš Makara, Peter Vrábeľ – are pretty clearly not of Hungarian extraction, their group, which was formed in 2006, is called the “Kassa Boys.”
By the way, for any readers who slept through Magyar 101, Kassa is the Hungarian name for the eastern Slovakian city that folks of the Slovak persuasion tend to call Košice, and where you’ll have to go if you want to see the exhibit.
