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Bryn
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« on: 09:15:34, 08-04-2008 »
I have just been forwarded this by Margaret Leng Tan:

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Subject: FW: PLEASE PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD,

Dear People Who Care About Animals,

In 2007, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, a so called 'artist', took a dog from the streets, tied it up to a short rope attached to a wall in an art gallery, and, in the name of "art" let it slowly die of hunger and thirst.


For many days, the author of this horrible cruelty and the visitors of the gallery were simply spectators of the poor animal's torture, until it slowly died after an absurd and incomprehensible agony.


Do you think this is cruel? No doubt you do but the story doesn't end here: the prestigious Biennale Centroamericana of Art has decided, incomprehensibly, that the utter cruelty committed by the aforementioned individual is art, and Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat this sadism at the 2008 Biennale Centroamericanan
which will be held in Honduras.

LET'S STOP HIM!


Sign here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

When you arrive at the signing page, Ciudad / Localidad: (required) - This means "Your city." Pað©s: (required) - This means "Country."


You don't have to pay nor register, and its worth doing it so that this man will never be appreciated nor be called an artist for performing such a heinous act, for such an insensitivity and for provoking another being's pain.  It takes just ten seconds of your time.

Please help to avoid the unnecessary, cruel and sadistic suffering of an innocent animal.


PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS.


P.S. If you 'google' the 'artists' name you'll see other web pages related to this matter.
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« Reply #1 on: 13:03:43, 08-04-2008 »
Wouldn't it make more sense to encourage people visiting the "exhibit" to feed the animal?

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« Reply #2 on: 13:09:15, 08-04-2008 »
I wonder what an "artist" would look like roped to a wall and denied water or food?

I think it could be a new art-form!!  Now where could we find a suitable subject??
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« Reply #3 on: 13:35:37, 08-04-2008 »
"Juanita Bermúdez, director of the Códice Gallery, insisted Natividad escaped after just one day. She said: 'It was untied all the time except for the three hours the exhibition lasted and it was fed regularly with dog food Habacuc himself brought in.'"

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2269320,00.html

In any case there was nothing stopping visitors from feeding the dog, and if the piece is done again I'm sure it's well enough known that people will go with dog food.
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« Reply #4 on: 15:41:34, 08-04-2008 »
Why doesn't someone nick the work of art and give it a good kennel home?

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