Eastern Europe is losing its charm, says an artist

In the early 90', conceptual artist David McForsam moved to Czechoslovakia. Now, twenty years later he speaks about his experiences in a country that from former Soviet block moved to European Union.

Prague, Czech Republic (prHWY.com) March 31, 2011 - In the early 90', conceptual artist David McForsam moved to Czechoslovakia. 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.

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

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