Program host Jimmy Carr (photo by Rob Parfitt)
As part of the latest episodes of Jimmy Carr’s comedy show, the British television channel bought works by a variety of “problematic” artists, including Pablo Picasso, convicted pedophile Rolf Harris and rapist Eric Gill.
A panel discussion on Jimmy Carr’s upcoming TV show Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, airing later this month, will ask whether you can really separate a work of art from its creator — before deciding which works to destroy.
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Ian Katz, the channel’s program manager, confirmed that if the studio audience chooses to save the Hitler painting, it will not be hung in the Channel 4 conference room, but will be disposed of “properly”
Katz explained the concept of the show. “There are supporters for every work of art,” he said. “Then you have a defender of Hitler. There will be someone who will argue not for Hitler, but for the fact that his character should not decide whether the work of art should exist or not.”
Channel 4 hired an art expert to buy the works “from an auction house considered works of art”, although there is a long history of doubt about the attribution of Hitler’s art.
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