ART: 1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
so... when was art's definition extended to include the allowance of intentional suffering and/or death of another living thing against its own choice or will. while art should instigate discussion, it should never be through this way. this is truly disgusting.
PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD - this is a disgrace!! Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:54:10 -0500
Please sign and crosspost to everyone you know. Not just rescuers. Send to friends and family, too. 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, and starved him to death.
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
Please read to the end of this....He has been INVITED to do this again THIS year. Note: He paid five local children to help him catch the terrified stray dog...in the impoverished area. The dog had no way to escape capture or his fate once he was in the hands of this cruel maniac. But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008. PLEASE HELP STOP HIM. http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html%3E> <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html>
Besides signing the petition, please also write or e-mail the gallery that will host the 2008 exhibition to ask them to prohibit him. We can also write to other galleries that carry his other works and ask them to boycott him. Here's some addresses:
(1) EXHIBITION IS TAKING PLACE AT:
info@madc.ac.cr
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
(2) ANOTHER GALLERY SHOWING HIS WORK: This is the email address to a gallery which currently holds some of Vargas' work for display and sale. If anyone would like to ask the gallery to drop him from their list of artists the email address is below. Email address: info@jacobkarpio-galeria.com
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ART: 1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
so... when was art's definition extended to include the allowance of intentional suffering and/or death of another living thing against its own choice or will. while art should instigate discussion, it should never be through this way. this is truly disgusting.
PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD - this is a disgrace!! Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:54:10 -0500
Please sign and crosspost to everyone you know. Not just rescuers. Send to friends and family, too. 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, and starved him to death.
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
Please read to the end of this....He has been INVITED to do this again THIS year. Note: He paid five local children to help him catch the terrified stray dog...in the impoverished area. The dog had no way to escape capture or his fate once he was in the hands of this cruel maniac. But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008. PLEASE HELP STOP HIM. http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html%3E> <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html>
Besides signing the petition, please also write or e-mail the gallery that will host the 2008 exhibition to ask them to prohibit him. We can also write to other galleries that carry his other works and ask them to boycott him. Here's some addresses:
(1) EXHIBITION IS TAKING PLACE AT:
info@madc.ac.cr
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
(2) ANOTHER GALLERY SHOWING HIS WORK: This is the email address to a gallery which currently holds some of Vargas' work for display and sale. If anyone would like to ask the gallery to drop him from their list of artists the email address is below. Email address: info@jacobkarpio-galeria.com
We signed the "PLEASE HELP STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN" petition!
# 311:
2:18 pm PDT, Sep 29,Alexandra Rutkowski, New York
please think about what you would be alowing this artist to do. where does cruelty end? we cannot alow ourselves to be disensitized to this kind of violence.
# 310:
10:23 pm PDT, Sep 19,Rosine Baert, Belgium
# 309:
10:22 pm PDT, Sep 19,Kurt Van kleef, Belgium
# 308:
10:22 pm PDT, Sep 19,Isa Pattyn, Belgium
# 307:
10:22 pm PDT, Sep 19,Vanis Callens, Belgium
# 306:
10:21 pm PDT, Sep 19,Roos Baert, Belgium
# 305:
3:34 am PDT, Sep 18,Simos Tarabatzis, Greece
# 304:
4:44 am PDT, Sep 14,Iryna Marroyen, Belgium
# 303:
4:44 am PDT, Sep 14,Marc Marroyen, Belgium
# 302:
4:07 am PDT, Aug 22,Lynda Harding, United Kingdom
# 301:
3:40 am PDT, Aug 2,Zenda Septaringga, Indonesia
# 300:
10:27 pm PDT, Jul 26,Austin Kendall, Florida
# 299:
11:24 pm PDT, Jul 15,Aurette Dreyer, South Africa
dit noem ek nie kuns nie, dit is moord op n dier wat te swak is om terug tebaklei wat ook nie sou gewen het al probeer hy. Ons moet kan opstaan en opraat vir die wat nie kan nie, laat hulle deur ons praat en die goed kan stop.
# 298:
6:15 am PDT, Jul 15,Bridget Hopper, Kentucky
# 297:
12:00 pm PDT, Jul 13,Wayne Potts, Canada
# 296:
9:20 am PDT, Jul 13,Christina Brewer, Canada
please stop this guy i saw the video and said what's this when i clicked on it broke my heart to pieces i thought how could anyone be this cruel to a poor defenseless animal i just couldn't take it i had to forward the video to all my friends on facebook don't let him do this ever again please i beg of you stop the stupidity and retarded mentality of this man not even a kid that's a shame an older man like this performing such an act should be jailed for the rest of his life or electrocuted or something but he certainly does not belong back on the street where there is kids and people and animals all around next it could be a person this man is a sick bastard he deserves to have his rights to live taken away from him if i ever did something like that i wouldn't be able to live with myself
# 295:
1:08 am PDT, Jul 10,Diana Sari, Indonesia
No animal cruelty in art
# 294:
12:27 pm PDT, Jul 8,LILIAN BLUMENTHAL, Brazil
# 293:
11:23 pm PDT, Jul 6,Greg Barton, Canada
I am disgusted by what this "artist" has done. What has he accomplished but
taking the life of an animal. In other words he accomplished nothing. I
congratulate the man who put out the video. Plus the art patrons didn't even spare a look at this suffering dog. I wish that this so called artist would be put in the same circumstance. Of course society wouldn't allow it calling it a cruel and inhumane thing to be done.I swear, we have regressed instead of progressed. I am an animal lover and they have feelings just as we do.
# 292:
1:29 pm PDT, Jul 3,Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece
# 291:
1:05 am PDT, Jun 27,Alexandra SUSINI, France
# 290:
6:33 pm PDT, Jun 26,Maudy Monique, Indonesia
# 289:
10:18 pm PDT, Jun 25,Hubert Delgrange, France
Torture is not Art.
# 288:
10:00 am PDT, Jun 19,Tina Laycock, United Kingdom
It's absolutely disgusting and if he wants art, then he should chain himself up and starve to death and leave the poor defenceless animals alone.
# 287:
9:18 pm PDT, Jun 16,Theresia Tham, Indonesia
# 286:
7:02 am PDT, Jun 15,Ines Seidel, Germany
# 285:
6:31 pm PDT, Jun 11,Amelya .., Indonesia
why u're not try and do that to ur self?!!
# 284:
9:31 am PDT, Jun 11,Karen Hoover, Ohio
Domesticated animals are here for us (humans) to take care of. This is disgusting, wrong, cruel and not right. This poor dog. What is this world coming to that would display, generate money and believe that it is art to use a starving (and probably sick) animal out for the public to view. The person responsible should be ashamed of themselves. I pray that some humane individual, group or organization would demand to "rescue" this poor, helpless creature and feed him, take him to a vet and love him and care for him. NO ONE should be treated in this way.
# 283:
9:23 am PDT, Jun 9,Jessica Hoover, Ohio
this is not art--it is inhumane and cruel--it needs to stop--needs to be illegal
# 282:
6:03 am PDT, Jun 9,Putri Chandra, Indonesia
please don't do that
# 281:
10:37 am PDT, Jun 8,Jaime Trainer, West Virginia
# 280:
10:04 pm PDT, Jun 4,Stephanie Brake, New York
# 279:
2:29 pm PDT, Jun 3,Annelies Ooms, Belgium
# 278:
1:03 pm PDT, Jun 1,Rev Elijah Stutes, Hawaii
May God help us before we destroy this whole world.
# 277:
7:46 pm PDT, May 30,Diana Ely, Ohio
# 276:
2:59 pm PDT, May 28,Name not displayed, New York
PRPOVERBS 12.10 THE RIGHTEOUS TAKE CARE OF THEIR ANIMALS, THE WICKED DO NOT IN THE NAME OF JESUS
# 275:
12:58 pm PDT, May 26,Marie C Torres, Florida
# 274:
12:59 pm PDT, May 22,Samantha Lewis, United Kingdom
please stop this...
# 273:
2:15 pm PDT, May 21,Ioannis Andriopoulos, Switzerland
# 272:
1:51 pm PDT, May 16,Sisy Anissa, Indonesia
# 271:
4:05 pm PDT, May 15,Anne Seidel, Germany
# 270:
2:39 pm PDT, May 15,Jill Garofalo, Texas
How terrible, what an evil person
# 269:
10:55 am PDT, May 15,Maxine Battams, United Kingdom
words fail me when this kind of thing happens to an innocent helpless animal and we seemingly cannot do anything about it. There must be someone in that part of the world that could have set set the poor creature free.
# 268:
10:34 am PDT, May 15,Francine Battams, United Kingdom
this made me cry how can someone watch that happen it is a horrible world that we live in!
# 266:
9:22 pm PDT, May 13,Christine Kamradt, Illinois
# 265:
9:05 pm PDT, May 12,Sandy Rusch, Illinois
# 264:
11:54 am PDT, May 11,Hamel Emmeline, France
# 263:
10:06 pm PDT, May 10,Prima Baily, New York
# 262:
10:56 am PDT, May 10,Branka Starcevic, Colorado
THIS IS MORE THAN INHUMANE! PLEASE HELP STOP IT! BE THEIR ANGEL BECAUSE THEY CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!
# 261:
9:48 am PDT, May 10,Kerstin Lahr, Germany
# 260:
4:36 pm PDT, May 9,Erin Carr, Australia
I am a vet & a fan of art & this is absolutely disgusting. Definately not what i'd call art, at all.
# 259:
10:21 am PDT, May 9,Gail Freel, New Mexico
# 258:
5:29 pm PDT, May 7,Mary Barnes, Tennessee
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