Created: September 26, 2012 Last Updated: September 26, 2012
The mayor of a Swedish town is being criticized for using $91,000 in public funds to pay an artist to depict him in a painting dressed like a Roman soldier.
The image will be part of a larger mural placed in the Horby council building, reported The Local publication.
?I have met the artist on many different occasions and we had discussed a painting. I thought it sounded very interesting. He then sent in a proposal that was presented to the Horby industrial property board,? said mayor Lars Ahlkvist of the Moderate Party quoted the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper The Local reported.
\>");The painting not only depicts Ahlkvist as a Roman legionary, but also depicts a local financier as Sweden?s 17th century King, Karl XI, and his partner as a noblewoman from around the same time period.
In the painting, ?we?ve got the Arab Spring, as well as a team of snapphane from Horby,? he said, mentioning the 17th century pro-Danish guerilla fighters who battled the Swedes.
Ahlkvist said the mural would give attention to Horby, a municipality located in southern Sweden with around 7,000 residents.?Clearly, Horby has gotten a lot of attention and that is never a bad thing,? he said.
The commissioning process was done properly, city Manager Arne Bertilsson told the publication.
?We decided to use the existing exceptions to the rules in the procurement laws, which gave us the right to contact and chose one artist only,? he said.
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