These are probably the worst photos I've ever had to look at.

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a  dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and starved him to death.



For several days, the 'artist' and visitors to the exhibition watched this defenceless animal die a horribly slow and painful death.

Unbelievable as it sounds, another identical exhibition is planned for 2008.

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There are two things that really get my Irish up and that's cruelty to children and animals. Worse, to legitimize it by calling it art? People like these are the reason I think the stocks should be brought back as a form of public punishment.

Check these sites out. It's not clear that this story is real - there are lots of urban legends floating around the net:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp

http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/04/artist_starving.php

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=561815&in_page_id=1811

If in fact it's a publicity stunt by a shameless artist - pretending that he starved a dog to death even if he didn't - it's just about as despicable as if he actually did it. Don't feed this jerk's quest for publicity any further.

More info here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Vargas

Disgusting and the worst artistic sickness I see. He's not an artist, he's a boner who think he's an artist

It's not real. The dog wasn't harmed. Read the links above.

Quote from: Vonkara on April 27, 2008, 11:40

Disgusting and the worst artistic sickness I see. He's not an artist, he's a boner who think he's an artist

It's not real. The dog wasn't harmed. Read the links above.

So after the dust is up , they have a new story about how dog escaped away from there , with no prove that he is alive. If it was they would find him in no time , or offered a reward so someone would find him for them. Then again , it was all about pointing on a problem on other starving dogs.

There are also children starving in the world , so whats next , should we chain a child and starve it to death to make a point , or there a women being abused all around , so should someone beat his wife to death in a museum to point that fact or make a performance in the street and rape someone to make a point ? Art ?


I still wish his next show will involve him and few unchained starved pittbulls

You are probably right Leaf. But anyway I think that taking an unhealthy dog and making an exhibit from him is displaced (good word?). And more, having hundreds of dogs dying in the streets is also a big problem itself.

So taking time to put a dog in a freek show and not taking the time to help any of them show that there's some values that this peoples don't have

Some so-called artists say the role of art is to cause a reaction. If so, he suceeded. Unfortunately this definition makes all kind of barbarian attitude "art". 

Regards,
Adelaide