That dog in That gallery

[CaNsA]

After seeing the article about the artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving him to death.
I wondered what everyone elses POV is on the subject.

I wont say my piece until the right time. but please, let me know.

Cheers

CaNsA

[veeeffarr]

I think your piece is totally wrong, by the way

But I'll see what everyone else says

T

[base]

amazing what can be called art these days, personally i would take a bit of rope tie the fucker up, starv him and call it art...........

[Scouse]

Calling it art is wrong. I can see the good side of doing it, if it brings attention to the problem of how many homeless hungry dogs there are dying on the local streets.

It is still cruel but then 'you've got to be cruel to be kind'.

[veeeffarr]

But the dog didn't die and there's doubts that it was actually a stray anyway

[Scouse]

[veeeffarr]

[colin1]

maybe it died, maybe it didnt
there seems to be a bit of doubt on the net on the subject

if it had died, he might have been tempted to lie and say it hadnt to avoid being prosecuted for animal cruelty

if it was suffering from not being fed very much or at all, i think he should be prosecuted for animal cruelty

but i tend to trust wikipedia over other sources, and it sounds like it didnt suffer that much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Vargas
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[Scouse]

[veeeffarr]

[colin1]

but apparently they did after about 3 hours
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[Scouse]

[veeeffarr]

[Scouse]

[CaNsA]

I posted this on another forum, you can probably guess what was being said by other posters.

I think that the artist has achieved what he aimed to do and it was a great success.

The public pay no attention to stray animals, yet the moment he takes a stay dog and places it on show there is a public outcry......

The animal would have died either way, the fact it died in a gallery and not on the street makes no difference. Assuming it died at all.....

I suspect that the vast majority of people who have signed petitions, forwarded emails, created groups on social networking sites, havent actually taken the time to do any research at all. I looked on the web and within 5mins i found what i was looking for.

Don't get me wrong, its a shame to see so many stray animals, but people who condemn before understanding just make me laugh....

My 2 pence

[veeeffarr]

[Scouse]

[CaNsA]

from what ive read, he went and paid 2 little kids to capture the stray dog for him

[McGee]

He's a cruel fvcker who I would love to beat to death.
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[Visitor Q]

Meh, when will people realise feral animals are vermin.

Disease spreading, native animal killing and general not worthy of all this liberal fluffy stuff.

That said, no 'modern' art is actually art, interesting perhaps, but not art.
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[CaNsA]

[Visitor Q]

Then that makes it a 'stunt'. Climbing downing street dressed as Batman was also a 'stunt', pretences of art were never raised.

Art;

1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

IE aesthetic criteria. Tracy emin and her bloody unmade beds, people with their tents full of ex boyfriends names, Turner prize bastardisation... Pfff, it's interesting perhaps. But its not aesthetically pleasing, and they tend to just have tenuously attached labels to tie them in.

This red canvas /symbolises/ capitalist opression of the proletariate.

Right.

There was a guy a while ago who invented a new shade of blue paint, so he painted loads of canvases ENTIRELY blue. Thats art?

For my money, and your average layman, art is something that is evocative, emotive, and most importantly.... isn't something we could do ourselves.

That Gunther guy who pickles bodies. Very interesting and I wouldn't mind going to an exhibit, but art? Yeh right.

It's only art because pompous artists say it is.

By your logic, every cunt in spain who ties their dog up in a field in the baking sun and remembers to feed it once a week are 'artists'.

Pfff.
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