A Starving Dog Is Not Art - Please Stop This Artist
I am as open minded as the next art loving person - but when out right cruelty comes into the expression - I can’t see the point. Not at all. I am really so mad about this artist being allowed to exhibit this sick and disturbing work - all at the expense of the animal. No matter how poignant a message might be expressed in the graphic medium used - I think a line needs to be drawn and the gallery needs to abide by an ethical code. Clearly this art is sick, wrong and shameful. Please go to the web site to make your voice heard.
In 2007, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, a so called artist, took an abandoned dog from the streets, tied him to a very short rope to a wall in an art gallery, and left a kettle of food on the other side of the room, beyond his reach, and left him there to slowly die of hunger and thirst.
The so-called artist of such cruelty and the visitors of the gallery of art watched the agony of this animal. The dog finally died of famine, surely after a painful, absurd and incomprehensible torture.
The prestigious Centralamerican Biennial of Art decided that this horrible act committed by this guy was art, and Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel actions in the Biennial in 2008.
If you go to this website there is a petition to try to stop this from happening again. Also links to the previous ‘art work’.
