"Art" - starved dog (graphic pic) Please read.

[14+kitties]

Disgusting either way but if he did it to call attention to the plight of the dogs on the street then maybe, just maybe, he can be forgiven.

[Frenchy]

Originally Posted by 14+kitties

Disgusting either way but if he did it to call attention to the plight of the dogs on the street then maybe, just maybe, he can be forgiven.

It sounds like that was the idea. I wouldn't call it a publicity stunt as he got death threats because of this. He must have known this wouldn't help selling his art stuff

[rainbow]

Originally Posted by Frenchy

It sounds like that was the idea. I wouldn't call it a publicity stunt as he got death threats because of this. He must have known this wouldn't help selling his art stuff

Some people don't care enough about their pets to think that way though.

[MyBirdIsEvil]

Until the artist gives a clear answer and proves otherwise I'm going to assume the dog was mistreated.

As an artist, it stands to reason that the "exhibit" and the making of it would be fully documented. If the artist didn't do anything wrong they should easily be able to prove it.

[Bristol]

Originally Posted by MyBirdIsEvil

Until the artist gives a clear answer and proves otherwise I'm going to assume the dog was mistreated.

As an artist, it stands to reason that the "exhibit" and the making of it would be fully documented. If the artist didn't do anything wrong they should easily be able to prove it.

I could not agree more.

Bristol

[katherine93]

I know this post is from a few months back but, i was wondering if anybody has heard anything about this lately. If the guy had be 'punished' ? or if hes at it again etc.






-katherine

[Dingo]

The very article the OP links to states clearly that the dog wasn't harmed:

artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what they really are - "hyprocritical sheep". He said that in order for the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.

Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Codex Gallery, stated that he would not have allowed the dog to be mistreated, that it ate and drank regularly, and that it was allowed to escape back to the streets from where it was taken at the end of the exhibit. "It is conceptual art and a work that leaves a social message", he said.

[katherine93]

oh.. Thanks dingo