xposted on IJ's divierto and scribbld's divierto
I found this group on Facebook.
Please sign the petition.
STOP THIS "ARTIST" FROM KILLING ANOTHER DOG
In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took
a dog from the street,
tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved
him to death.
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of
the exhibition have
watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based
on the dog's agony,
until eventually he died.
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts
Biennial of the Central
American decided that the 'installation' was
actually art, so that
Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat
his cruel action for the
biennial of 2008.
PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
It takes a second to help put a stop to animal abuse.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE LINK AND SIGN THE PETITION.
WE MUST STOP THIS IDIOT.
WE MUST PUT AN END TO HIS "WORK".
WE MUST NOT ALLOW HIM TO CAUSE ANOTHER POOR DEFENSELESS CREATURE TO SUFFER.
Guillermo Habacuc Vargas admits on his new created MySpace page, that he indeed killed the dog!
Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:"Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought.
Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway.
"So there is just this to say: We see, that not only the gallery was lying from the beginning, but also, what we have to think about all statements of this "artist".
We see how he is changing his statement, depending on how the public reactions are - first statement was "the dog would have died anyway" - second statement was "I cannot say if the dog died or not" - third statement was "I wanted to do it to remember Mr.Natividad Canda" [the burglar killed by guard dogs] - fourth statement was "I did the exhibition to show the terrible situation of street dogs".... etc...
The next statement will be obviously "Santa Claus and Ronald McDonald jumped into the exhibition and took the dog" or something like that?!
Go here for pictures of the dog, i cried. :(
WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS HOW EVERYONE IN THE GALLERY JUST STOOD THERE AND WATCHED. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID NOTHING! HOW CAN ANYONE THINK THAT IS 'ART'? /RANT
