I was checking myspace and saw where a friend posted a bulletin, so of course I clicked on it to see what it had to say. And this is what I read...
In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to death.
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition watched, emotionless, the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.
Does THIS sound like art to you?
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of Central America decided that the 'installation' WAS actually art, so Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the Biennial of 2008.
Andy Warhol once said "Art is anything you can get away with."
I can't see the art in tying an animal up and watching it die. There's nothing artistic about what Habacuc did. He took something that happens everyday..DEATH...and called it his little work of art. Why should he receive credit for what he did? Art comes in all shapes, sizes and mediums but somehow I cant seem to fit this into the scheme of things.
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This is completely dysfunctional. How is cruelty to animals art? How can anything see anything artistic about a poor animal starving to death?
It was art.
He did it to show the hypocrisy of people. Thousands of dogs, living on the street, die each year from starvation. No one cares about them. No one cares about them until someone makes an example out of one of them, which he did. Suddenly he's a horrible person?
The Humane Society investigated this art display. The dog was fed and watered and allowed to escape, back into the street, once the exhibit was over (3 hours later). All the controversy surrounding it, the dog actually dying, etc., is part of the art display, and a clever means of attaining publicity. Clearly, it's working if he is being asked to do a repeat.
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Yep, i just hope the pup got some biscuits out of it.
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Or a head scratch, at least.
Part of me would feel better if the dog had been put up for adoption, rather than back to the street. But another part of me knows that it probably wouldn't have been adopted, and it would have been put to sleep anyway.
Maybe, instead of petitioning this art display not be allowed again, people should petition for media coverage or something for the dog used the second time. I'll bet the adult dogs displayed on TV for adoption get adopted more often than the adult dogs that don't. That might take away from the purpose of the display, though, to have some reporter letting everyone know the dog isn't really suffering, but it is up for adoption!
I ramble sometimes. :-P
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Yeah i think you're onto something. We're talking about art here still, right?
And we know how priceless the Mona Lisa is, so perhaps after the show some uber-art fan could take him home after extending a lump sum.
There's the problem of how to raise the money-- auction or old-lady raffle style or one large game of bingo. The winner walks away with art for their "wall" (in this case that might translate to their backyard).
And who to donate the dinero to after it's collected...
Oh the problems are mounting...
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Perhaps it is not about the stray dog that he used, but has social significance and he is attempting to show us something about our society. For more thoughts on the subject, check out my blog about this at http://www.progressiveu.org/172812-artistic-confusion-or-outright-perver...
That's not art. That's animal abuse. I can see the significance behind it, but I still don't think it's right. I'm glad that the dog survived.