Guillermo Vargas Habacuc - A cruel "artist"
- added April 22, 2008
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Artist Guillermo Vargas - Habacuc
Last year, the Costa Rican ‘artist’ is alleged to have paid some children to chase and catch an abandoned dog. He is said to have tied the animal by a very short rope to the wall of an art gallery in Managua and left it there for several days, without food or water, until it died.
During this time, many people visited the art gallery, paying absolutely no attention to the torment of the dying dog.
Photographs of the so-called exhibition can be found on the Internet.
The prestigious Central American Biennial exhibition incomprehensibly decided to consider this barbarous act as art, and Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action at the Biennial of 2008 in Honduras.
In his defence, the artist has claimed that what he was attempting to prove was that those who saw the suffering of the dog just walked on by and that if it had been left on the street to die, no-one would have even known of its existence.
It has also been reported that the dog did not die but escaped, and that it had been fed by Vargas and was only tied up during the gallery opening times. It has not been possible to confirm this.
The Managua exhibition attracted worldwide attention and many people believe it to have been an act of cruelty rather than art. A petition has been started in an attempt to prevent Habacuc’s involvement in the 2008 Biennial and from repeating the spectacle.
If you would like to sign the petition, visit:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
Last year, the Costa Rican ‘artist’ is alleged to have paid some children to chase and catch an abandoned dog. He is said to have tied the animal by a very short rope to the wall of an art gallery in Managua and left it there for several days, without food or water, until it died.
During this time, many people visited the art gallery, paying absolutely no attention to the torment of the dying dog.
Photographs of the so-called exhibition can be found on the Internet.
The prestigious Central American Biennial exhibition incomprehensibly decided to consider this barbarous act as art, and Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action at the Biennial of 2008 in Honduras.
In his defence, the artist has claimed that what he was attempting to prove was that those who saw the suffering of the dog just walked on by and that if it had been left on the street to die, no-one would have even known of its existence.
It has also been reported that the dog did not die but escaped, and that it had been fed by Vargas and was only tied up during the gallery opening times. It has not been possible to confirm this.
The Managua exhibition attracted worldwide attention and many people believe it to have been an act of cruelty rather than art. A petition has been started in an attempt to prevent Habacuc’s involvement in the 2008 Biennial and from repeating the spectacle.
If you would like to sign the petition, visit:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
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- addctd2whticnsay
- 4 months ago
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This topic is also being discussed on this item page:
http://current.com/items/86050831_art_can_kill_it_did_k... -
thanks jolivar
Please if you are agianst this INJUSTICE sign the petition
--Jade;)-
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- addctd2whticnsay
- 4 months ago
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Guillermo Habacuc Vargas is a monster passing as an artist and must be stopped.
Please sign the petition at my-cause.com-
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- lizzie_roberts
- 4 months ago
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Only the artist is required to suffer for his art....
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- leighatkins
- 3 months ago
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if this is ART then hitler must still be alive this man is the pits of the earth may he burn in hell..please sign the petition and stop this cruel poor excuse for a man
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Having recently been to Costa Rica and Nicaragua I can assure you that there are many street kids and people also starving. Is this "artist" next going to tie up one of them to display in a gallery? But we are just as guilty from afar. We sit back, sign a petition and feel we have done our part. Actions speak louder then words. If everyone that signed the petition actually helped an animal or street person, this blight on society would be drastically reduced.
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- laughter222
- 3 months ago
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