Saturday October 20, 2007, 1:49 am
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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.

Saturday October 20, 2007, 4:22 am
This is a sad and sickening story------- BUT--- Like Sooo many other stories it's been on here over FIVE times since last night! Theres some good stories, but it seems like no one checks real hard to see if it's been done!
Please-- Nothing personal, It's a hard one to stomache!

Saturday October 20, 2007, 6:07 am
Who is calling this Art? What is going on with the called "modern society"? People who went to see this, allowed it to happen!!!! How can people see others die and do NOTHING????
It is a shame and disgusting.

Saturday October 20, 2007, 9:55 am
Thank you Brenda, sadly noted......however, I must say about this sub-human...ONE THING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER.....this is a dog idiot...they are called MANS BEST FRIEND for a reason..its a no-brainer...THIS IS NOT ART, got it!!!!!! This is a disgusting display of inhumane behavior from an individual who has lost his mind for the mighty dollar!....I can't even believe this was done to this poor innocent dog, and everyone there just walked by?...what about helping the dying dog in front of your eyes?...what is up with that?....I do not understand the intelligence of these people, and I question whoever allowed this to happen...Poor doggie...RIP..Navidad...you were a blessed soul to have to endure the pain under the hands of sub-human...no more paiin hon....
Much love to all here that care about this poor baby...
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Saturday October 20, 2007, 10:42 am
I have no words. This "artist" is a devil and all those who didn't help the poor innocent dog his evil assistants.

Saturday October 20, 2007, 6:01 pm
Such a sick, twisted man. And everyone who witnessed this atrocity but did nothing should share the punishment this man deserves!

Sunday October 21, 2007, 9:28 pm
I am beyond words!!!! I am tempted to fly down to Costa Rica and throw this freak in an empty cell and walk away. Let him know what its like to starve to death. Sicko.

Monday October 22, 2007, 4:17 am
(NEW PETITION) BY JULIE S.-- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Starving-A-Dog-Is-Wrong
Please sign this new petition!

Monday October 22, 2007, 4:39 am
Many thanks Brenda, going to sign the petition right away....i appreciate you posting it, and I'm glad Julie S. started it, thanks to also julie..good hearted, caring people is what the world needs more of girls.....Many blessings to all....
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