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Anna Sansom. Conceived in the classical style of Antonio Canova's Three Graces, the larger-than-life-size sculpture featuring the German chancellor on the left is based on a photograph taken in former East Germany GDR when Merkel was a member of the Free German Youth movement, which organised summer camps for year olds. The picture of Merkel and two friends walking on a beach, at a time when naturism was popular in the GDR, was republished in Vanity Fair in February during Germany's electoral campaign as Merkel was running for a third term. Abdessemed has isolated the three figures in the photograph, they are strolling in front of the sea and portrayed the world's most powerful female politician as a smiling, carefree youngster, a light spring in her step amidst female camaraderie. Abdessemed first made drawings based on the photograph before mastering the frozen movements of the girls' gait. The rendition of Merkel recalls how Abdessemed made an ivory sculpture, Cri , of Kim Phuc, the young girl fleeing a napalm attack in Nick Ut's photograph for AP. Other works in L'Antidote include 'Shams' , a vast clay installation of forced labourers, soldiers and weaponry that occupies all of the third floor and a sculpture of a bar in Lyon that Abdessemed frequented as a student at the city's fine art academy.

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Mrs Merkel is portrayed in the buff, with her hands protecting her modesty, in the satirical cartoon by political magazine Der Spiegel. The provocative drawing, captioned "The price of power", takes aim at the Chancellor for agreeing to go into coalition with the SPD. In the background of the cartoon, drawn by British artist Nishant Choksi, three people wearing t-shirts spelling out 'SPD' flee with Mrs Merkel's clothes. The magazine's editorial is equally scathing, telling its readers: " Angela Merkel has paid a high price in order to stay Chancellor a little longer.