Artist or TWAT? (NSFW)

[El Presidente]

In 2007, Guillermo Vargas tied a stray, starving dog to a rope and called it an art exhibit. The emaciated, weak dog soon died-- widely suspected of being starved to death in the name of art. Now, Vargas has been invited to recreate his exhibit at the Arts Biennial of Central America.

If you want to sign a petition, please go to the link.

http://www.experienceproject.com/mk/walls/starving-dog-art-protest.php?r=fba#long_description

 

[Fat Pete Clemenza]

Twat

 

[Mr Burns]

Is he Twat? I'd say the inbreeds that go and see this shit are the twats.

But yes, he is also a TWAT

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Utter tosser. Is it true?!

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[Dick Knights Mumm]

recreate it ? with the same dog ?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Utter tosser. Is it true?!

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Hmm...

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp

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[Trigger]

Tie the fucker by his bollocks to an exhaust pipe.

 

[Brian Fantana]

One sick individual if you ask me.

 

[Fat Pete Clemenza]

Tie the fucker by his bollocks to an exhaust pipe.

What, like Barry Lloyd?

 

[El Presidente]

What, like Barry Lloyd?

That bloke will surely be HGV positive if he does that.

 

[Silent Bob]

f***ing twat.

How is that even art?

It's not, he's just torturing a dog.

 

[Easy 10]

It raises important questions about our own mortality. If we can see that a malnourished dog (us), tethered to the rope of capitalism (the City) can through no fault of its own starve to death and eventually die, it provides a stark reflection on out own vulnerability and lack of control over our own destinys. To have such a powerful concept brought to us in a stark, visual form is of course distressing. But it is also an important aspect of our evolution as a human being to recognise our own frailties, and to find empathy with a doomed creature who represents our own vulnerability.

f*** all that though. What a SICKO.

 

[Nibble]

Why has he not been charged with cruelty?

 

[El Presidente]

Why has he not been charged with cruelty?

He's in Central America. If he was in Korea he would be charged with leaving lunch out in the sun.

 

[Mackenzie]

How about recreating his 'work of art' by tieing Guillermo Vargas to a stake and watching him starve?

 

[Easy 10]

How about recreating his 'work of art' by tieing Guillermo Vargas to a stake and watching him starve?

Surely he'd just eat the stake ?

 

[Easy 10]

Art, to me, would be using that dog as an inspiration rather than a prop.

Art, to me, would be using that dog to wipe your arse after you've flung your shit in that white room. That would be really.....deep.

 

[hart's shirt]

From Wiki...

In August, 2007, Vargas displayed his "Exposición N° 1" in the Códice Gallery in Managua, Nicaragua. The exposition included the burning of 175 pieces of crack cocaine and an ounce of marijuana while the Sandinista anthem played backwards. The work also included an emaciated dog tied to a wall by a length of rope with "Eres Lo Que Lees" ("You Are What You Read") written on the wall in dog food. The work attracted controversy when it was reported that the dog had starved to death as part of Vargas's work.

Photographs of the exhibit appeared on the Internet, showing the dog tied to the wall in a room full of standing people. There are no indications in the photos of where or when they were taken, nor of who took them. The outrage triggered by the photos and the allegations that the dog had been left to starve to death quickly spread internationally via blogs, e-mails, and other unconfirmed sources, including internet petitions to prevent Vargas from participating in the 2008 Bienal Centroamericana in Honduras that received over four million signatures. Vargas has endorsed the petition, saying that he, too, has signed it.

Juanita Bermúdez, the director of the Códice Gallery, stated that the animal was fed regularly and was only tied up for three hours on one day before it escaped. Vargas himself refused to comment on the fate of the dog, but noted that no one tried to free the dog, give it food, call the police, or do anything for the dog. Vargas stated that the exhibit and the surrounding controversy highlight people's hypocrisy because no one cares about a dog that starves to death in the street. In an interview with El Tiempo, Vargas explained that he was inspired by the death of Natividad Canda, an indigent Nicaraguan addict, who was killed by two Rottweilers in Cartago Province, Costa Rica, while being filmed by the news media in the presence of police, firefighters, and security guards.

Upon conducting a probe, the Humane Society of the United States was informed that the dog was in a state of starvation when it was captured and escaped after one day of captivity; however, the organization also categorically condemned "the use of live animals in exhibits such as this." The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) also investigated the exhibit. WSPA found the information regarding the issue to be "inconsistent" and met with sponsors of the Honduras Bienal to ensure that no animals would be abused at the 2008 exhibition in that country.

 

[bhaexpress]

Somebody should push that scum into an open sewer and then film him drowning in it, that's not art it's poetic justice.

 

[Motogull]

Twat, no brainer that one.