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UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!DONNA C. BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION AND I HOPE IT'S TRUE !!!
March 22, 2008 The story of a dog being starved to death as part of an art exhibition appears to have been falsely reported by Costa Rican newspaper The Nation, according to new sources. I reported the appalling story here last week among global outrage about the exhibit and a reported invitation to repeat the work elsewhere.
 It has now emerged, however, that artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what they really are - "hyprocritical sheep". He said that in order for the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.
Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Codex Gallery, stated that he would not have allowed the dog to be mistreated, that it ate and drank regularly, and that it was allowed to escape back to the streets from where it was taken at the end of the exhibit. "It is conceptual art and a work that leaves a social message", he said.
 The stunt provoked massive outrage on a global scale, and over a million people have signed an online petition to try and prevent another dog being starved to death in a repeat of the exhibit. Unconfirmed reports say that the artist even received death threats and, judging by the vehement anger I've seen in response to this story, that would not suprise me.
The strange thing is perhaps how you react knowing now that this was a hoax. I suspect, like me, you still feel angry, perhaps that it's sick, and that your initial reaction was totally justified. But though I may not agree with his shocking methods whatsoever, I have to admire Guillermo Habacuc Vargas' ability to inspire such a reaction and, in that sense, didn't he achieve what he set out to do? Whether it qualifies as 'art', conceptual or not, is a totally different matter...
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THIS IS THE RIGHT PETITION (NO HIVOS INVOLVED !!!) AND BELOW ARE THE EMAIL ADRESSES OF THE GALLERIES ! PLEASE EMAIL THEM ! THANKS ! Hug, Marla Petition  Below is a translation of the petition. It is a ’strict’ translation but you should be able to understand it. When you sign it, you are asked for your name, email address, Ciudad / Localidad: (required) = city and PaÃs: (required) = country.
PETITION Boycott to the presence of Guillermo Habacuc Vargas in the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008 View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition To: Central American biennial Depth 2008 14 September 2007 - Of http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2007/septiembre/14/aldea1239344.html In the middle of polémica, the Costa Rican Biennial of Visual Arts (Bienarte) 2007 inauguró last night strict and pequeña selección of works and premió to six artists with happens torepresent paÃs in the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008. The artists awarded in this sixth edición of the prestigious appointment of art contemporà neon were Errol Barrantes, Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, Oscar Figueroa, Mimiam Hsu, Esteban Stone and â??La band of the submergedones (Sila Chanto and Jhafis Quintero). The jury, integrated by Ana Sokoloff (Colombia), Oliver Debroise (México) and Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers (Ecuador), escogió with work base of great quality and excellent coherence between idea and ejecución, según detailed. the Bienarte is organized by the Industralists by the Art. ****************** One of the “artists”, Guillermo Habacuc Vargas (http://www.marcaacme.com/blogs/analog/index.php/2007/08/22/5_piezas_de_habacuc) permitió the death of a dog by inanición during the event. He is inadmissible that pisoteen of this form the rights of the animals and that the “artist” had gathered it of the street to let it die moored with a cord to the wall of galerÃa when she had the opportunity of not making it or even save it. Of the Blog de Rodrigo Peñalba http://www.marcaacme.com/blogs/analog/index.php/2007/08/22/5_piezas_de_habacuc “Según I knew to the dog murió to dÃa following by lack of food. During inauguración I knew that the dog was persecuted in the evening between the houses of aluminum and cartón of a district of Managua with santo name who Habacuc that could not need at the moment. 5 niños of which they helped in the capture received 10 bonds of córdobas by his colaboración. During exhibición some people requested the freedom of the small dog, to which él artist rehusó. The name of the dog was (it was) Natividad, and I let myself to him die of at sight hunger of all, as if the death of a poor dog was a show medià tico impertinent in whom nobody does nothing mà s that to applaud or to watch disturbed.” Nothing we can do by this dog but if to treat of which the organizers of the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008 do not admit this “maltratador artist” of animals. I request to you you adhere to this request and that you spread mà s that is to you possible shameful east act to gather mà ximo of companies and to veto it in the biennial. Sincerely, The Undersigned View Current Signatures The Boycott to the presence of Guillermo Habacuc Vargas in the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008 Petition to Central American Biennial Depth 2008 was created by to the cruelty with the animals and does not written by Jaime Sancho torelló (jaime.sancho@gmail.com). This petition is hosted here AT www.PetitionOnline.com ace to public service. There is not endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. Technical For support please uses our simple Petition Help form.
This was passed along to me as the ‘artist’s MySpace page - You can check it out. EXHIBITION IS TAKING PLACE AT: Gallery Website Email Address:
info@madc.ac.cr Location:
Centro Nacional de la Cultura
Antigua Fábrica Nacional de Licores.
Avenida 3, calle 15/17. San José, Costa Rica.
Teléfono: (506) 257 7202 / 257 9370
Fax: (506) 257 8702 Sample Letter to Send the Gallery
I am writing regarding the horrifying actions of Guillermo Habacuc Vargas,who paid local children to catch a dog on the street and then confined,starved and publicly displayed the dog as an “art” exhibit until the innocent animal died of starvation. I along with many people world wide am outraged t hat Guillermo habacuc Vargas has been selected to represent Costa Rica in “Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008″,This man is by no definition of the word an artist he is a criminally insane sadist and enjoys inflicting prolonged suffering upon his innocent victims.he is a danger to all of society as it is well documented that those with the capacity to intentionally cause harm to an animal have the same capacity to harm humans. To state that this animal would have died eventually of natural causes is unjustifiable and beyond logical,rational thinking.  To allow Guillermo habacuc Vargas to represent Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 will in no way benefit Costa Rica,the world is watching and the actions of this so called artist has brought much negative assumptions as to the humanity of the people of Costa Rica and the fact that the many witnesses of this animals suffering did nothing and that the organizers of this event allowe d this rather than taking action to see that Guillermo Vargas be criminally charged with animal abuse is sending the world a message that Costa Rica consists of a cruel,uncivilized society that has no regard for life but enjoys viewing and contributing to the loss of life.
Each and every person who knew of and witnessed the suffering of this innocent dog is equally as guilty of causing it’s uncalled for death. And to let this crime go unpunished and instead be awarded by Guillermo Vargas representing Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 is unacceptable and shameful not only to Costa Rica but to all participants of this event. I urge you,do not condone the heinous actions of Guillermo Vargas by allowing him to participation in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008.He should be jailed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of law for this animals death,not representing Costa Rica as an artist for he is not an artist and to refer to him as such is an insult to all true artists. Sincerely,
Your Name
ANOTHER GALLERY SHOWING HIS WORK
This is the email addy to a gallery which currently holds some of vargas’ work for display and for sale if anyone would like to ask the gallery to drop him from their list of artists their email address is below.
EMail: info@jacobkarpio-galeria.com
INFORMATION ABOUT EXHIBIT
What he says on his blog (translated) Located HereAccording to I knew the dog died on the following day by lack of food. During the inauguration I knew that the dog was persecuted in the evening between the houses of aluminum and cardboard of a dis trict of Managua with santo name who Habacuc that could not need at the moment. 5 children of whom they helped in the capture received 10 bonds of córdobas by their collaboration. During the exhibition some people requested the freedom of the small dog, to which he artist rehuso. The name of the dog was (it was) Natividad, and I let myself to him die of at sight hunger of all, as if the death of a poor dog was a shameless mediatic show in which nobody does nothing else that to applaud or to watch disturbed. Definitively we are what leimos: pure croquetas. In the place that the dog was exposed single it has left a metal cable and a cord. The dog was extremely ill, renqueaba and it did not want to eat anyway, so in natural surroundings it had died anyway; but thus they are all the poor dogs: sooner or later they die or they die them.
****************************************************** Here are two news sources, they are not in English tho, so for those of you who think this is some kind of a hoax or joke, it’s not! Foreign News Sources - Nacion.com, ABC.es From Nacion.com Exposition carried out in gallery Codex in Nicaragua
Costa Rican artist wrapped in polemics by death of dog in work
‘Habacuc’ collected to hungry animal and used it in its work “Exposition N°1″
Defenders of animals repudiate the action and they ask to exclude artist of biennial The costa rican artist Guillermo steep Slopes, more known as Habacuc, is wrapped in a great polemics due to the death of a stray dog inside Exposition N° 1, sample that was carried out last August in Managua (Nicaragua). Various defenders of the animals in Costa Rica were informed of their work through a blog and they accused it yesterday of cruelty. What was seen in Managua. As part of its exposition, the artist faced Al spectator to a sick, thin stray dog and with hunger hitched to the corner of the room. He captured Al animal in a poor neighborhood of Managua. The dog died after a day in the exposition, according to it was confirmed to The Nation Marta Leonor González, publisher of the cultural supplement of The Press in Nicaragua. The sample also included the phrase, written with food of dog, “you Are what read”; as well as of an audio with the Hymn Sandinista Al reverse, photos and a censer, where they burned 175 stones of crack and an ounce of marijuana. Habacuc said yesterday that its work was a homage to Nativity Locks, Nicaraguan that died after to be attacked by two dogs rottweiler in a workshop in Carthage. “I reserve me to say if is certain or that not the dog died. What is important for me was the hypocrisy of the people: an animal thus becomes focus of attention when I put it in a white place where the people is going to see art but not when is in the starving street. Equal passed with Nativity Locks, the people was sensitized with him until they were eaten it the dogs”, explained. Even it added: “Nobody came free Al dog neither gave food or called the police. Nobody did nothing”. Al to be questioned about if fed Al animal or not, the artist refused to respond. Why did not it use another middle of expression? “I collect what I look at… The dog is more I live that never because continues giving what to speak”, said. Costa Rican anger. Various defenders of the rights of the animals repudiated that work of Habacuc, they disqualified him as work of art and they suggested that Al artist be excluded him of the central american Biennial Honduras 2008, since he will be one of the six representatives of the country. “I frightened me Al to see that is promoted the cruelty toward the animals in a work of art. We will present a letter so that be prohibited the cruelty in the art and so that this boy do not dam you Al country in the biennial”, he expressed Gina Malavassi, champion of the animals. José Moral, vice president of the Special Unit of Protection and Animal Rescue, he thought. “The dog was hitched and without food; I do not understand in what head that is art”. Liliam Schnog, president of the Humane Association for the Animal Protection, said that does not understand how was left to die of hunger to an animal if at par there was a done phrase with food. These organizations study the case in order to seeing if proceeds some accusation.
From ABC.es The revolting provocation More wood, this is the war of the scandal “artistic”. After the polemics of the photography of Nam Goldin of the naked girls now we have the most difficult one still, this is, the demonstration of the cruelty “estetizada”. The costa rican artist Guillermo steep Slopes has left to die of hunger to a stray dog in an installation that has mounted in a fair of art in Nicaragua. In a wall he has written, with food of dog, the phrase “you Are what read”, adding olfactory and sonorous actions or, better, narcotic, that convert their piece in the peak of the chaotic thing. Thus the hymn can be listened sandinista Al reverse and to attend burns it, in a censer of 175 stones of crack and an ounce of marijuana. I do not please with that cocktail, the known artist with the nickname of “Habauc” trapped a dog in a slum of Managua and he tied him to one of the walls of his demented assembly. Al following day the animal had deceased. Homage to Nativity Locks Facing the indignation generalized and to the criticisms, the responsible for this lamentable action has come to say that its intention is to go against the social hypocrisy. Among its confused intentions was that of honoring to Nativity Locks, that was attacked in Carthage (Nicaragua) for some dogs rottweiler. “The people -underlines steep Slopes- was not sensitized with that man until they were eaten him the dogs”, adding that did neither nobody decide of feeding Al dog that was “exposing”, collaborating of that way to his death. As he is logical, the associations of defenders of the animals have disqualified this supposed work of art. It is really surprising the proliferation of artistic actions that are characterized for their violence as if they trusted in the homeopathic magic. But it is not certain that in all the circumstances “the similar thing with the similar thing be cured”. The contemporaries we suffer the “syndrome of Jellyfish”, we are, literally, astonished before the all types of screen contemplating horrors without neither our consciences neither our stomachs react. Some artists, become some apprentices of magician, professionals of the rowdy exorcism, they decide to present to what still, inercialmente, they call “middle-class look”, revolting or simply criminal things. Their provocations find the conventional answer: the apathy or the alien shame. The brutal one “work” of Guillermo steep Slopes carries us to think again in the absurdity of the contemporary art. It obsessed by the taboo one, this is, delivered Al delirium to touch and to desecrate what be, does not pay attention to expenses and gestures. All the gesticulations, supportive with the patty of the reality-show, they finish for carrying us to think that would be necessary to recover the critical capacity or, at least, to accept that, in certain occasions, we are right for the indignation. Because the art cannot be the umbrella for the vandalism and, consistently, would not have that to guarantee the impunity. Chris Burden shot against an airplane Al edge of an airport, Santiago Saw filled a synagogue in Germany of unbreathable gases, Teresa Margolles generates vapor with the water that serves to clean the corpses. In some occasion I have qualified to these contemporary artistic forms traveling through Al term “idiotic”. And it so happens that instead of leaving us astonished or to cause to think, the “cruel realism” in which is installed Guillermo steep Slopes reveals more than the stupidity the cynical compliance of the estetización contemporary. There is not in that obscene exhibition of atrocities another thing that search of media impact. Seems to be that this young artist that swings between the platitude and the politics of the accusation was invited to the next central american Biennial. Its stylistic one was typically “bienalista”; had all the elements of the fashionable sauce: a little soft sociology, a slice of somewhat rough and multicultural rhetoric so that can qualify the indigestible mess as “radical”. Rilke found in the eyes of a doggie abandoned in its peregrinaje Spanish an interrogation metaphysics, something as well as the indication of a melancholy solidarity. Surely, Guillermo steep Slopes has not read those verses rilkeanos in which calls to the dogs that see us to pass “by a world interpreted”. He, with all its decorative rage, does not need the poetry: suffices him with the brutality and to be thus, lacking him so much that to read, an illiterate animalistic one. Its provocation is, simply, revolting.
Translations of both news stories provided by Free Translation.com ********************************************************* There is no excuse or reason for what this vile ‘artist’ did, to take an obviously sick and starving dog and to put him on exhibition for any reason is deplorable. And just as bad as this so called ‘artist,’ is the gallery officials and spectators who allowed this to happen. They condoned this ‘art form.’ And to think that this sick and twisted excuse for a human being is being honored and has been chosen to represent his country at a celebration is unbelievable. To glory in such neglect and abuse is just appalling! It matters not that this poor dog was going to die anyway as Guillermo Vargas excuses himself for this display. To drag the dog into this gallery, tie him up and leave him to die so pathetically and in such suffering in the view of so many, not even allowing the smallest act of kindness in giving him food or water, how can someone be so cruel and heartless?!?! Do not allow this ‘artist’ to profit in fame or fortune from his act of depravity!! Please sign the petition, write letters and email to the galleries. Show him that is no way will this be allowed! Let him learn the true meaning of ’starving artist!’ ************************************* I want to thank everyone who contributed information, pictures, etc. to put this together and get the word out on this ‘artist.’ Many people have worked and researched and put their time and heart into this and I tried to pull it all together. I wish I knew everyone’s name to thank them personally but the important thing is to bring light to this atrocity and let people know so that something like this does not happen again. Please, get the word out! Post and repost! |
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Pamela Mendoza (112) |
Monday March 17, 2008, 2:47 am
I am an art lover. I can do without that art. Sick, isn't he? |
Diana Animalspirit (143) |
Tuesday March 18, 2008, 8:23 pm
The Bitch needs to die the same way she murdered this poor dog!!!!!!! ALL IN THE NAME OF ART too! SHE SHOULD'VE BEEN ARRESTED ! AND WHERE THE HELL WAS ANIMAL PROTECTION!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Nancy Gray (101) |
Friday March 21, 2008, 7:48 am
Although I understand the intent of the aritst, I abhor the means used...a living suffering animal...to make the point. I cannot condone this anymore than I could condone an artist taking an abandoned starving street child and confining him or her to be left to die without help so others would be awakened to the evils of this world. It is a shame anyone feels the need to resort to a choice such as this to awaken people...but that shame is shared by all the people who willingly ignore animals and children and people suffering on the streets of this world seemingly invisible to those who pass them by. |
Suzy Lyster (0) |
Friday April 4, 2008, 10:41 am
This is disgusting! I wish I could tie up the guy and then leave a bowl of food out of his reach. I guess that would be cruel, inhuman and illegal though! |
Tonya S. (0) |
Saturday April 5, 2008, 7:06 pm
This is absolutely disgusting and sick. If this was done to a human would it still be called "Art"? |
Ricky B. (0) |
Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:42 pm
this be stopped |
Brittany B. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:59 am
i cannot believe that this stuff not only is taking place but being considered art. I am an art lover and enjoy creating art myself, however this is in no way a form of art or expression, it is curel and inhumane and deserves to be punished with the most strict punishment available. |
Brittany B. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 10:01 am
i cannot believe that this stuff not only is taking place but being considered art. I am an art lover and enjoy creating art myself, however this is in no way a form of art or expression, it is curel and inhumane and deserves to be punished with the most strict punishment available. |
Roshena C. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 12:44 pm
This is very disturbing and needs to be stopped. This is NOT ART. This is a very sick person with no heart who neglected an animal and left it to die. I am appalled by this behavior. This needs to be stopped. |
Katie B. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 12:51 pm
cvf |
Katie B. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 12:51 pm
This is such a sin and shouldn't be allowed, this is not what you call art, this is cruelty and people should be punished!! |
Katie B. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 12:53 pm
This is such a sin and shouldn't be allowed, this is not what you call art, this is cruelty and people should be punished!! |
Sylvia R. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 12:58 pm
what does this guy think he is???
he is a sick pysco |
Kristina Maguire (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 6:03 pm
I do not agree with this artist's "work" however he does raise an interesting point. Everyday you all probably walk past homeless people who may in fact be starving. Perhaps you have even walked past stray cats and dogs in the street who may in fact be starving. This dog apparently died after only one day in the exhibit (this is what I read off of the links posted on the care2 petition link) which means it is likely the dog had been sick and starving for MANY weeks/months, which means that MANY people had been walking past the dog for just this long. If he places the dog in a white room and calls it art, people complain and call for the artist's death. If he approached you on the street and asked for money to feed the sick dog, you would probably all say you didn't have any. What I think he is trying to say is that our apathy towards others (dogs or humans or whatever) is what really needs to be changed. |
Jody Walder (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:28 pm
Does the artist not have compassion for animal's suffering? Does she not have a heat? Why would people support such a cruel person who should be prosecuted some way for her inhumane treatment...and what ever excuse she uses to justify her actions are pathetic...she could have tried to save the poor creature of God and that would be an absolute beautiful thing...and inspire others to do the same...she is but a satiste and people ought to never buy her work! In the name of Jesus, I pray this and may never an animal have to suffer for what she deems art! |
Erika T. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:04 pm
This is the most disgusting, sick, cruel, and heartless thing i have ever seen. This is not art no matter how much emotion it causes people to feel. It is cruelty at the utmost level from an empty, lost individula looking for attention. PATHETIC!!!!! |
Erika T. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:05 pm
This is the most disgusting, sick, cruel, and heartless thing i have ever seen. This is not art no matter how much emotion it causes people to feel. It is cruelty at the utmost level from an empty, lost individula looking for attention. PATHETIC!!!!! |
Erika T. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:05 pm
This is the most disgusting, sick, cruel, and heartless thing i have ever seen. This is not art no matter how much emotion it causes people to feel. It is cruelty at the utmost level from an empty, lost individula looking for attention. PATHETIC!!!!! |
Erika T. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:06 pm
This is the most disgusting, sick, cruel, and heartless thing i have ever seen. This is not art no matter how much emotion it causes people to feel. It is cruelty at the utmost level from an empty, lost individula looking for attention. PATHETIC!!!!! |
Micheal L. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:28 pm
wtf is wrong with this guy? this is not how we need to teach people... |
Micheal L. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:29 pm
wtf is wrong with this guy? this is not how we need to teach people... |
Liam H. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:21 pm
I find this very hard to believe. But then again I come from a culture where dogs are kept as family members. I would love to see the "roles" reversed on this guy. Or we could feed him dog kibble until he hemorrhages and dies. |
Liam H. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:24 pm
I find this very hard to believe. But then again I come from a culture where dogs are kept as family members. I would love to see the "roles" reversed on this guy. Or we could feed him dog kibble until he hemorrhages and dies. |
Meghan L. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:41 pm
That is the sickest thing i have ever seen!! the artist should be tied in a corner and left to starve and suffer!!!!!!!!! |
Meghan L. (0) |
Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:42 pm
That is the sickest thing i have ever seen!! the artist should be tied in a corner and left to starve and suffer!!!!!!!!! |
Amy Middleton (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 12:02 am
this is a sick, tasteless and extremely disgusting show of someone using their power as a human being to hurt another living creature. what right does he have to treat these dogs like that? someone should put him on a god damn leash and see how he bloody well likes it! PLEASE STOP THIS! i am physically nauseous from looking at those pictures. |
Amy Middleton (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 12:02 am
this is a sick, tasteless and extremely disgusting show of someone using their power as a human being to hurt another living creature. what right does he have to treat these dogs like that? someone should put him on a god damn leash and see how he bloody well likes it! PLEASE STOP THIS! i am physically nauseous from looking at those pictures. |
David Menchinton (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 8:52 am
What the F@#k this is murder why doesn't the U.N step and on this artists?? Lets do the same to the artists and watch them suffer through starvation and thirst.... |
Tim K. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 9:28 am
This is not art, the so called artist needs to be tied to a short rope and left to starve. |
Darlene K. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 10:53 am
Makes me want to throw up. All over the so-called "artist". Then i'll call that art. |
Darlene K. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 10:55 am
Makes me want to throw up. All over the so-called "artist". Then i'll call that art. |
ingrid f. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 11:22 am
After careful consideration and the fact that I am a member of PETA, I do not like the way he expressed his art, not one bit. I detest people who use animals as a form of self expression whether in art or for their own sadistic pleasure. BUT in saying that, the fact of the matter is that the artist said it, if left on the street NO ONE, NOT ONE PERSON WOULD HAVE PAID ATTENTION TO THIS DYING DOG. The fact that he died the next day tells you that this dog was dying regardless. I do think its sadistic, but who is to blame here the artist or the public who stood and watched this animal die? He said no one let him lose, no one offered him comfort, and no one did anything for the animal. Who is really the animal here? The artist of the public for allowing this animal to die? He brought it inside, rather than die on the street he brought it inside to die people!!! Are you not getting his point?? If he were to die outside no one would have paid attention no one would have cared NO ONE.
NOW EVERYONE CARES. EVERYONE IS PAYING ATTENTION. How about those thousands of dogs that are dying out in the streets and in the shelters every day? How about them? If you are outraged then do something! Don't just be outraged for the sake of being out raged. Do something about the puppy mills, the pet shops who sell dogs from puppy mills. do something! Don't just be outraged about this one dog; be outraged for all the animals that die needlessly every single day!
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Jordan Decaire (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 11:48 am
I would love one person anywhere to voice their opinion about how this could be remotely tied into the catergory of 'art'.
One word can sum this all up:
GuillermoVargasHabacucIsAnAsshole
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Char M. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 6:17 pm
This is horrible. A point made at the expense of a living creature is cruel, this artist, and the millions of people who think like him need to realize that all creatures live, breathe and feel. I am sickened by this Man. He Must be stopped! |
Char M. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 6:20 pm
This is horrible. A point made at the expense of a living creature is cruel, this artist, and the millions of people who think like him need to realize that all creatures live, breathe and feel. I am sickened by this Man. He Must be stopped! |
Linda M. (0) |
Monday April 7, 2008, 6:42 pm
ingrid f. Regardless if the animal would have died anyway this act for art sake is disgusting and cruel. Tied up the dog could not scavenge for food, or look for water, and had no chance to fend for itself. To put food, and water just out of reach, is CRUEL, and hastened it's death. Guillermo Vargas HabacucIs could have video taped starving dogs in the street, and the conditions to which they live, to get his point across to the public that was letting this happen all around them. You don't have to torcher an animal to make a point. In fact, by doing nothing, and placing him on display,, and starving him further, he is every bit as disgusting and vile as the people he is trying to make a point about. Providing more agony to the animal, was and is WRONG. I don't need to be outraged in order to do something about animal cruelty, nor do I need to see torchered animals in order to help stop puppy mills and such. I will speak out against Guillermo Vargas HabacucIs so called art and call it what it is, disgusting, and vile selfish attention seeking, as it is NOT ART. To condone this behavior is to open the door to further encourage others to even more cruelty towards animals.
I agree with Jordan Decaire:
Guillermo Vargas HabacucIs is an ASSHOLE |
Brenda Mihalcheon (1) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 7:42 am
This is absolutely horrible. How could someone just sick back and watch this. If you were starving to death and people stood and watched you how would that make you feel. She will burn for doing this, it is disgraceful.
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Brenda Mihalcheon (1) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 7:47 am
This is the most disgusting display of "art", if you want to call it that, I have ever seen. This person obviously has no talent and is showing it very clearing with this. Anyone that was there is obviously condoning this terrible treatment of animals and should be ashamed of themselves. Maybe your art will be appreciated in hell, that's where you are bound!!!! Shameful |
Katrina O. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 8:02 am
This is very sick. This is so disturbing and I don't know how someone could be this terrible to a living being. This dog did not died in the name of art, it died because there are twisted uneducated people who have no compassion and have nothing else meaningful in their life to concentrate there energy on. I believe in Karma. |
Natalie H. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 10:30 am
Thats animal abuse! what makes that right for art? if it was a starving human would he think thats art? the guy is sick and needs help! Torturing a little innocent animal is the one of the first signs of a killer. We should tie him up to show him how it feels and see if he thinks it art...the sick bastard! |
Natalie H. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 10:32 am
Thats animal abuse! what makes that right for art? if it was a starving human would he think thats art? the guy is sick and needs help! Torturing a little innocent animal is the one of the first signs of a killer. We should tie him up to show him how it feels and see if he thinks it art...the sick bastard! |
Lisa A. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 11:17 am
this is not art!! its cruel! anyone with a spect of intelligence and compassion would understand this! whoever called this art and let this inhuman behavior happend should be punished to the fullest
looking at this picture makes me cry, i really hope one day the people who let this happend realize what they did was extremly wrong and hopefully they find help because their obviously not mental stable |
Spring G. (1) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 12:03 pm
this is disgusting! where does this person begin to think that this is art. i paint, i draw, i do photography... and i sell it in public. art is creativity, not abuse. this is abuse! why hasn't this guy been arrested? this is so upsetting, and it inspires me to make a piece of art. i'm a vegetarian, and therefore i am against animal abuse. this is so gross!!!!! maybe i should take a homeless child off the streets, beat it, starve it... lets see how far i could get with that. |
Kerri M. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 12:22 pm
I think this is exactly whats wrong with the world today. How cruel does a human have to be to abuse an aminal in this way. I thought thats what seperated humanity from the animals. Our compassion. I love art, and I love expression. This is neither. This is sick and should be considered criminal. |
Kerri M. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 12:22 pm
I think this is exactly whats wrong with the world today. How cruel does a human have to be to abuse an aminal in this way. I thought thats what seperated humanity from the animals. Our compassion. I love art, and I love expression. This is neither. This is sick and should be considered criminal. |
Farah Jamil (1) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 1:18 pm
I think this person that calls himself an artist has never expierienced true hunger before. May he die of hunger to know the pain he's put these poor animals through.. |
Chaz B. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 3:18 pm
There are worse things going on in the world. The price of the computer in front of you could feed a starving family for years. It is good that his art has inspired such outrage. Let that outrage send the money for your next meal, or coffee, or pair of pants, to someone who really needs it. In this global economy, the other side of the world becomes our neighborhood, and as Vargas starved that dog, so do we starve our neighbors. What he does directly, we all do indirectly. |
Chaz B. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 3:23 pm
There are worse things going on in the world. The price of the computer in front of you could feed a starving family for years. It is good that his art has inspired such outrage. Let that outrage send the money for your next meal, or coffee, or pair of pants, to someone who really needs it. In this global economy, the other side of the world becomes our neighborhood, and as Vargas starved that dog, so do we starve our neighbors. What he does directly, we all do indirectly. |
Jocelyn Critch (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 4:17 pm
What kind of dum ass are you... how would you like to have the same thing done to you... You should be put away in jail for a long time ..Hope that you never sell another painting ..J critch |
Heather Tetrault (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 4:33 pm
I am absolutely in disbelieve that there are even human beings who could commit such unbelievably inhuman and cruel acts. Nevrmind have the gall to call it art. We have to do something to have this stopped and these poor animals saved. If I had millions of dollars I wuld give ever penny to see this stopped. PLEASE we have to do something. |
Cristale Marier (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 4:36 pm
This is absolutely terrible. I completely agree that the "artist" should die the same way that the animal did. There is no point being made here. Animal cruelty is animal cruelty... there is no art in it. What if serial killers used the same excuse... would we call that art? NO, we wouldn't and the same is happening here. Everyone who walked by this exihibit and didn't do anything is just as guilty as the artist and should also be tied to a rope just far enough that they couldn't reach any food. I am absolutely appalled by this. I feel that animals deserve the same treatment as humans... this IS murder and not just from the artist but from EVERY sick individual that stood there and didn't do anything. The artist should be punished as they would be if this was human. Maybe then there would be an end to animal cruelty. |
Stacey Sarek (3) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 4:47 pm
i don't know what bothers me more, the fact that this idiot calls it art, or that lots of peopld walked by the exhibit and didn't do a damn thing to help the dog, i would have cut the chain and brought food to him, wouldnt have cared if i got arrested doing it |
Stacey Sarek (3) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 4:49 pm
i don't know what bothers me more, the fact that this idiot calls it art, or that lots of peopld walked by the exhibit and didn't do a damn thing to help the dog, i would have cut the chain and brought food to him, wouldnt have cared if i got arrested doing it |
Jessy Brosseau (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 5:01 pm
i find this absolutely appalling i am from canada and i swear to you this would not go on. They need to change the laws over there or else people will fight back in some other way to get their point across that this is not ok. It's inhuman to do such a thing to this poor animal, what has he done to his i dread calling him master??? more like asshole |
Ali R. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:15 pm
So what ever happened to using imagination and painting based on that? Why couldn't the so called "artist" create the picture based on their own talent instead of taking a picture....or maybe thats why they had to resort to simply taking the picture because in actuality the artist doesn't have any actual talent? This is not art, it is the devil's work! And besides this, who was the jerk whom decided to display this pathetic picture and give the "artist" so called recognition? |
aj Thibert (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:41 pm
Lets tie him to the wall...I mean he thinks it's art...if he's that passionate about it he should be willing to die in the same way for the art he supports. Man up buddy...or cut this shit out. |
aj Thibert (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:41 pm
Lets tie him to the wall...I mean he thinks it's art...if he's that passionate about it he should be willing to die in the same way for the art he supports. Man up buddy...or cut this shit out. |
tracy archinuk (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:43 pm
Every day humanity makes me shake my head. There is always someone with a thought or belief that allows him to justify his actions...I understand the anger towards this man...he only gets my pity. |
Jenn C. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:49 pm
That is beyond sick and inhumane. What the hell?? |
Jenn C. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 6:51 pm
That is beyond sick and inhumane. What the hell?? |
Chelsey L. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 7:06 pm
this is ridiculous. this is not art, art is creativty causing a dog to suffer to death is not being creative. that is abusing an animal and it is sick. how is this even legal? and how can people walk by and watch this, if i saw this i would take the dog off the chain, there is not way i woulc bebale to stand watching that. this person needs to be stopped before they cause any more animals to die without reason. this dog should of been rescued off the street if this artist found it, and saved it, instead if killing it, and teasing it with food.
this is disgusting. |
Janet T. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 7:07 pm
absolutely disgusting..someone should do what he did to that poor animal to him..maybe it would teach him sonmething..soo sad
lock this guy up!! |
Janet T. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 7:08 pm
this is just cruel to even know that this kind of torture happens in the world..someone should do what this man did to that poor dog to him
absolutely sick |
Kevin Aschacker (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 8:30 pm
Obviously this goes too far. His points concerning the failure of people to respond to starving dogs in the streets in the first place are valid, but when an 'artist' goes so far as to construct a symbol in a gallery and fails to note that the symbol (the gallery 'work') is now distilled and carries concentrated emotional content (people venting their outrage at this depiction of cruelty), then the 'artist' has failed monumentally to gauge the meaning of the work at all. This is the height of irony. This person must be informed that this will not continue. This is human asininity at its depth. |
Johnny K. (0) |
Tuesday April 8, 2008, 9:15 pm
Pitiful... I posses an open mind about many things and as a passionate art lover, I know that this provokes thought and inspires emotion but, at the deliberate and controlled suffering of a living feeling being a line must be drawn. Absolutely sickening. |
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It has now emerged, however, that artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas intended the work to be a stunt to show how a starving dog suddenly becomes the centre of attention when it is in a gallery, but not when it is on the street. The work was intended to expose people for what they really are - "hyprocritical sheep". He said that in order for the work to be valid, he and the gallery had to give the impression that the dog was genuinely starving to death and that it died.
The stunt provoked massive outrage on a global scale, and over a million people have signed an online petition to try and prevent another dog being starved to death in a repeat of the exhibit. Unconfirmed reports say that the artist even received death threats and, judging by the vehement anger I've seen in response to this story, that would not suprise me.