Artist Ties Dog, Lets Him Die, Then Calls It Art!

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LATELY, a number of emails have been doing the rounds, condemning the actions of the artist, Guillermo Vargas ‘Habacuc’.

Last year, the Costa Rican ‘artist’ is alleged to have paid some children to chase and catch an abandoned dog. He is said to have tied the animal by a very short rope to the wall of an art gallery in Managua and left it there for several days, without food or water, until it died.

During this time, many people visited the art gallery, paying absolutely no attention to the torment of the dying dog.

Photographs of the so-called exhibition can be found on the Internet.

The prestigious Central American Biennial exhibition incomprehensibly decided to consider this barbarous act as art, and Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action at the Biennial of 2008 in Honduras.

In his defence, the artist has claimed that what he was attempting to prove was that those who saw the suffering of the dog just walked on by and that if it had been left on the street to die, no-one would have even known of its existence.

It has also been reported that the dog did not die but escaped, and that it had been fed by Vargas and was only tied up during the gallery opening times. It has not been possible to confirm this.

The Managua exhibition attracted worldwide attention and many people believe it to have been an act of cruelty rather than art. A petition has been started in an attempt to prevent Habacuc’s involvement in the 2008 Biennial and from repeating the spectacle.
Link can be found here

Originally Posted by Guillermo Habacuc Vargas
Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog named Nativity. The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought.

Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets anyway.

"So there is just this to say: We see, that not only the gallery was lying from the beginning, but also, what we have to think about all statements of this "artist".

wow.. thats just plain sick.

 

[Kaptain KnicKy]

Thats pretty fuckin sick. And stupid, just stupid. maybe this "artist" couldve put his creative talent into a documentary on the sick and dieing dogs in his home town, instead of just killing one for "Art", and prolly getting paid for it.

bullshit, this is. quick, someone catch Vargas, tie him up, dont feed him or give him water and let him die. ill call it "homeless man." happens all the time where i live.

 

[C4]

He was trying to prove his point but he could've done that in a better manner.

 

[★Chuck Zombie★]

You all proved his point. Do you guys shelter or at least feed every stray dog you see? No? Then why are you getting on his ass for not feeding a stray dog?

 

[Kaptain KnicKy]

I dont tie any up that i see, and call it art. ok so its cruel to not do anything about a homeless dog, that will eventually die, but to go out (and get kids) to get and tie up a dog, and let it die, then call it art of any kind is much worse.

he couldve done something different than this.

 

[Australian Badass]

What an evil motherfucker!