art or animal abuse?

armchair_warrior · April 2008

http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/

This is one of those things you come across and just have to blink a couple times and ask, “is this real?”. In fact it is.

Guillermo Habacuc Vargas had 2 children catch this dog. He paid the kids for this. He then chained the dog and used the dog as “art”. He told everyone not to feed this dog. The dog died in the gallery. He calls himself an artist. I call him an animal abuser. In that event, (in which the dog died) he was chosen to represent his country in the “Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008″.

violet · April 2008

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41396

The only controversy is over whether the artist actually starved the dog to death (as he says he did, though he also says it would have died anyway) or if the dog was fed at night until it escaped (which is what the gallery, responding to criticism, said happened).
I believe the "artist" and, either way, am so sad about the story.

There are petitions to sign, responding to the artist being asked to reproduce the "piece" at another show.

armchair_warrior · April 2008

my bad didn't see that post. mod delete mines or add it to older thread.

dakotas way · April 2008

Subject: artist

I think they should chain the artist up until he starves.

art or animal abuse?

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