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Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:14 am  |
Hi all,
I hope the mods don't mind me posting this - I don't normally post this sort of thing but I was so heartbroken when I read this I felt I had to try to get as much support to stop this happening again as I could.
In 2007, an 'artist' called Guillermo Vargas Habacuc caught a stray dog on the street, tied it up on a short leash to the wall of an art gallery and left it there to die slowly of hunger and thirst. Over the next few days, the artist himself and visitors to the gallery watched impassively as this happened. Now the prestigious Central American Biennial of Art has decided that this was indeed art and has asked Vargas Habacuc to repeat his actions in the Biennial of 2008. If you don't believe it, Google the artist's name... Please sign the petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/
On the petition page, the four things it asks for are name, email, (which stays private unless you uncheck the box)town and country. The rest is in English, I think.
Be warned if you do decide to check out the validity of this by Googling him - its horrible.
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Lucia, VERY fair (ghostly so!)redhead, combination skin prone to dehydration. |
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Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:49 pm |
My roommate translated it:
In the middle of controversy, the Costa Rican Bienal of Visual Arts (Bienarte) 2007 inaugurated last night a strict and small selection of works and awarded seven artists with the permit to represent the county at the Central American Bienal Honduras 2008.
The prize-winning artists in this seventh edition of the prestigious meeting of contemporary art were Errol Barrantes, Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, Oscar Figueroa, Mimiam Hsu, Estaban Piedra, and "the band of submerged-emergentes" Sila Chanto and Jhafis Quintero.
The judge, composed of Ana Sokoloff (Colombia), Oliver Debroise (Mexico), and Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers (Ecuador), chose the artists based on works of great quality and excellent coherence between idea and execution, according to their detail.
The Bienarte is organized by the Businessmen of the Arts.
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One of the "artists", Guillermo Habacuc Vargas allowed the death of a dog by starvation during the event.
It is inadmissible that they trample on this form of animal rights and that the "artist" had found it in the street and let it die tied it up by a cord to a wall of the gallery where it had the opportunity to do nothing, not even save itself.
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I found out that the dog died the next day from lack of food. During the inauguration, I found out that the dog was caught that afternoon between aluminum and cardboard houses in the neighborhood of Managua with the name of a saint that Habacuc couldn't specify at the moment. The 5 children that helped him capture it received ten dollars for their collaboration. During the exhibition some people asked to free the dog, but the artist refused. The name of the dog was Nativity and they let it die of starvation in front of everyone, as if the death of the dog were a shameless show where no one did anything more than applaud and watch without reaction.
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We can't do anything for this dog except try to have the Central American Bienal Honduras 2008 not allow this animal-maltreating "artist". I beg you to adhere to the stated diligence and spread this shameful act to as many people as possible so as many signatures as possible can be collected and and presented in the bienal. |
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