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"As dusk falls after another sweltering day, Enes Zlatar walks out into the courtyard of the Museum for Contemporary Art to smoke a cigarette. The opening of Gavrilo's Principles has gone well. His staff have performed miracles, and his concept definitely hit a nerve among artists and audience alike. Insanity Is Not A Crime, Young and Decisive, Hate Thy Neighbour, Conspiracy Theories Always Come True, Emperors Don't Work, The Beauty of Contingency and Never Act on An Empty Stomach - all the principles Enes defined for successful nation-building sparked the imagination, as the installations and performances on this first day of the grand centennial exhi-bition proved. Artists from Madrid, Beirut, Prishtina, Baghdad, Kigali, New York, London, Hamburg, Minsk, Belgrade and Johannesburg had picked up immediately on what he meant. (...)"
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