Sign this if you don't believe it is Art.

Courtesy of Mata Hari on the scorp board:

Hi all. This is a very serious matter...

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving him to death. He called this a 'Visual Arts Installation'.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition watched the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually the dog died.







Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all. A prestigious US Visual Arts Biennial decided that the 'installation' was actually 'art', so that Guillermo VargasHabacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.


Let's STOP HIM!!!!!

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html<BR>

Please do it.

It's free of charge and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.

I wish I could punch Mgirl right in the face for posting this on the picsces board without a warning. I cannot stand to look at animal abuse. It sickens me and right now I am furious that not only this happened to a poor innocent animal, but I had to unwittingly have it thrown in front of my face. Mgirl, I think you are a sadist. I hope you enjoyed shocking and sickening people. You're twisted.

Bitch.

Don't post shit like this - do something to change it.

I can adopt just so many animals. But with the one that I did adopt (because of neglect) I love her the way I could love the animals I can't get to.

Personally, I think it's genius at it's best.

** not Mgirl who posted this **


But, the message of the art, itself is amazingly incredible.

He has thoroughly proven that people will have an emotional reaction, and a desire to protect their own eyes and awareness from such an atrocity ... and yet, will stand by and allow it to happen.

Just as you posted Destiny, you are furious that this has been put in your face ..... this seems to be the common consensus on the board.

People will react without acting. It pretty much states the condition of the world at large .... we don't want to be aware of anything that brings us to this kind of torment .. yet, we do nothing to prevent it.

Vargas said: insisted none of the exhibition visitors intervened to stop the animal's suffering.

Nobody intervened, nobody went to the aid of the dog ... THAT is what is horrible, that is what people do ... we complain, we groan, we feel devastated, yet, do nothing to protect or rescue the innocent.

"More than a million people have signed an online petition urging organisers of this year's event to stop Vargas taking part."

Think about what the above quote is saying for what it means ...

A million people have signed a petition to stop this from taken part in the next gallery exhibit because they don't want to see it ... it doesn't say to sign a petition to stop this man from killing dogs, does it?

No, it just says that people don't want him there to show them again that they feel pain for the dogs suffering ....

... but, everybody failed to rescue the dog, didn't they?

We want to bitch about what we don't like in this world .. but, we fail to act/protect/rescue ... and just bitch, for our own protection of our feelings because we don't want to see it.

Wow .. I'm so moved by this art exhibit .. been talking and thinking about it all day ... brilliant.

This has really moved me ... still thinking about how profound this message is that the artist has conveyed ..

Look at the bottom picture .. the dog is lying there with a sad look on his face, and all the people who have the ability to help him have their backs to him .. completely indifferent to his suffering.

An article I read about it said that food and water were placed just beyond his reach of the chain .. so as he died, food and water were there to taunt him ... and yet, nobody, not one person pushed those bowls over to aid the dog .. NOT ONE PERSON .. and this article said that over 250,000 people visited this exhibit of the suffering dog.

How profound is that statement?