'Iron Curtain' 120"H, 92"W, 12"D Rolled-Hammered Steel 1985 I always try to see through the offical lines. When I was in the Army (back in Hungary) I could not belive that the "Imperialist Dogs", as the West was called in the boot camp, would want to take my "small nothings" away. I could not see and understand why would anyone one the other side of the "Iron Curtain" would march over to enslave me. I never believed that the people on any side of this invisible demarcation line were different from one another. When I came over to the West side of the Curtain my believe was confirmed. The people on both sides were fed with rhethoric that the other side is evil. Do you remember Ronald Reagan's "Evil Society" statement about Russians? So in 1985 I made this political statment which showed that on red side (Russian side) the people were told that they will liberated from the yoke of Capitalism and here on the West we were told that we would be saved from Communism. This work was on public show for two months in a busy part of Toronto as it was slowly turning around. PS. In 1989 October when Gorbachev met with Bush somewhere at the Meditarrean Sea, I have cut this work to pieces symbolizing the end of an era separating the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Few weeks later the "Berlin Wall" was pulled down...