Wrecked trawler hits central Bergen!

Summer in Bergen is tourist time. With 2 or 3 cruise ships berthing every day, each carrying up to 3,000 passengers, this is a time when you can see some odd things popping up in the streets in the name of art and culture!

Not everyone thinks they have artistic merit, and there have been a number of complaints about this installation, which is located outside the main art museums by the central lake. The artwork  shows parts of Vilma, a Russian trawler built in 1977, which was registered first in Bergen and then sold to Russian owners. In 2011 she was sent to Trondheim to be broken up as she had been under arrest in Kirkenes since 2004 and had incurred such huge fines she was no longer commerically viable as a trawler!

The artwork is a comment on our throwaway society. The trawler could have been easily be repaired but was thrown away because of commercial and financial 'logic'.

Any comments? I think it is quite neat actually!