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Mon 09 Sep 2008Artists erect 'warning signs on the landscape'
THE PURSUIT of profit has inspired dramatic physical changes in the Irish rural landscape which is being "destroyed in front of our eyes without mercy, without shame ", according to an internationally acclaimed artist.
New York-based Alfredo Jaar was launching a project in counties Leitrim and Roscommon at the weekend as five local artists unveiled their impressions of how the recent economic boom - and its demise - has transformed the landscape in the two counties.
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