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.

He DID say what happened to the dog....he said it ran away in the night....he AND the gallery director also said that the dog was NOT neglected, that it was fed and cared for during the hours the gallery was closed and was only made to look as though it were being neglected during the exhibit hours to prove a point about how sick and twisted people really are that they would accept this as art yet wouldn't look twice at the same dog starving on the streets...which by the way is where he found the dog...starving on the streets of Honduras...

And by the way the art show is NOT in the US and he does not plan to present the same exhibit at the show taking place in south america...ALSO the local animal authorities investigated and found no evidence the dog was harmed or neglected....which is why he and the gallery director were not arrested and why he is allowed to participate in the art festival....

Seriously - I wish people would actually research this stuff before they go spreading it around..... what happens one day when some guy out with his daughter at the park gets the shit beat out of him becuase some jackass posted a picture of the daughter and claimed she was a missing child abducted by a pedophile? People just forward this stuff and start a hysteria without actually checking the facts.....

not only that but when something REAL comes along no one pays attention because of the whole "boy who cried wolf" mentality.... This is serious. For all you know this artist could go walking down the street and get attacked and killed even by an angry animal loving mob....seems to me he actually likes animals a lot to bother to make this statement in the first place AND he actually did the dog a favor by getting it off the street and feeding it for a while, and if the dog earned his food by pretending to be an art exhibit for a couple of hours a day....big deal.....

NEXT TIME CHECK YOUR FACTS.

I never said I thought it was art - I said people should check the facts before spreading gossip about someone that can harm them whether professionally, personally, or even physically.

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just because the people at the exhibit didn't care doesn't mean there aren't psychos out there that would attack someone because of a rumor someone spread...that is my point... in both references......

Why don't we start sending around something that says you beat your daughter...I don't know if you have a daughter and that's not even the point... the point is that people read something like that and don't bother with finding out if it's true; they just get inflamed about it and perpetuate the rumor and in extreme cases should the opportunity arise...yes it can lead to personal, professional, or even PHYSICAL harm.....

People beat others for the most ridiculous things everyday....agys get beaten for being gay, people of one race beat someone of another race because of hatred, and there's a huge epidemic in south america right now of mobs of people beating up emo kids just for being different.

So don't tell me that would never happen.....

That is the sickest thing I have EVER seen in a gallery!!!!

We are artistic taureans too! We definately know better!!!! 😢 so sad