Why an Art of the Spirit still Struggles to be seen
Professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson
….:”DOG MURDER ART”
In my next book, PROMETHEAN FLAMES – Rekindling and Re-visioning the Creative Fire, I use the term “deadstallations” to describe the vacant and dead art of “installations” today in galleries, museums and events. I did not expect my term to become literally TRUE. In 2007, the so-called ‘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 to the exhibition watched, emotionless, as the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, eventually killed him. The walls were decorated with words made of dog food.
But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennale’ of Central America decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, not only calling it “art” but AWARDING him the prestigious FIRST PRIZE. Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the Biennial of 2008.
SEE THE VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzFBD-LgKV0&feature=related
PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
sign the petition to stop this asshole by going to;
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition-sign.html
It is no wonder that genuine artists who are deeply involved in expressing an integral and spiritual vision are beset with great challenges in the business of contemporary art. All in all, deep works of art are not likely to be found in the modern art museums, galleries and Bienniales, which are the contemporary counterpart to the palace in the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson. Contemporary museums prefer to literally buy
and exhibit Manzoni’s ‘canned shit’, piss aquariums with Christ inside, blood and guts on the floor, morons muttering nonsense on a video screen or peuk-filled bottles lit up from behind.
David Lee, editor of Art Review magazine:
“Last year’s Turner Prize winner, Chris Ofili, used elephant dung in his painting. Damien Hirst won the prize in 1997 for displaying the severed halves of a cow and calf in formaldehyde and artist Tony Kaye tried to submit a homeless steel worker for the prize. The judges’ bluster about Epoetry and the other all-purpose drivel they trotted out in defense of their choice is unhelpful to those of us who remain bewildered. It would have been educative for the entire nation to be flies on the wall of the Tate director’s office when the judges were deliberating. We would have learned the criteria used for judging such work and not have had to take on trusting the mindless paeans, more drivel uttered by those snake oil salesmen from the Tate’s Department of Interpretation. As it is we are none the wiser. Is it art? It might be but it does not look like it to me . . .”
With little or no change, just a few years ago, the Tate Gallery in London once again held its annual Turner Prize Awards, a cultural event that supposedly presents what is considered to be the highest and most valued art being created today. It is the ‘very latest’, what is on the cutting edge of the contemporary art scene and in their mounting of this exhibition they revealed their conniving and irresponsible behavior yet again. The exhibition consisted of works composed of bones, blood and guts, absurd assemblages and installations of garbage, virtually all of it vile and grotesque. To this, on the other side of the world, now we can add the murder of a dog as an exhibition in 2007 with a scheduled re-appearance in November, 2008.
Oy vey, if I could only get my hands on this bastard-excuse for a human being, and make him part of my next exhibition….now what would that look like???
Love
Prof Phil
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Dear Prof Phil… In an immediate gut response to just learning about that poor dog’s tragic death, I say we set up a “happening”… how about inviting Guillermo to “participate” in a “conceptual group art work” as the “guest of honor” at the same “art gallery” where this crime occurred. Make certain that the event is well-publicized in advance so that there is a very large crowd in attendance and make certain there is plenty of media coverage – but don’t let on exactly what is to occur… “It’s A Surprise!!” Then, after Guillermo arrives at the gallery at a set time (unsuspecting), a group of anonymous individuals wearing dog masks, barking, growling and howling, carrying a “suit” made out of raw steaks, pounce on Guillermo and tie the “meat suit” onto him, then bind him at the wrists and ankles with the same rope he used on that poor dog (if possible), then dangle him (just out of reach – make sure now… don’t want any unfortunate accidents) over a pack of hungry stray dogs (rescue them from the dog pound) milling around in a large cage set up in the same room at the same so-called art gallery that allowed this heinous act to occur, let him dangle there oh say… maybe for a quarter of an hour or so (don’t want to cut off his blood circulation, don’t want to be cruel and inhumane now do we?) and perhaps title this new collaborative “work of art” – “Poetic Justice” or “The Emperor’s New Clothes” or “Food For Thought” or “Karma Loves Dogs” (you choose) and by doing so, call Guillermo’s bluff and the so-called art gallery’s bluff at the same time. Make sure to invite all the major art critics and art collectors that were stupid enough to applaud his animal cruelty as a “brilliant work of art”, then photograph their expressions of shock, horror, dismay, confusion and possibly amusement(?) to be shown at the NEXT exhibition which should be titled… “A Penny For Your Thoughts” (maybe(?)). NOTE: Do NOT gag Guillermo, see how much noise he makes when HE is tied to the end of a rope. Also, can sell the stray dogs as a living piece of the “installation” with the understanding that they will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, that the dogs MUST BE given a good home and proper care and affection and with the understanding that the proceeds from selling the dogs will go towards any lawsuit that Guillermo might choose to file against the “other artists” that organize this event with any leftover amount to be donated to a local animal protection society. Now THAT’S ART!!! LOL. I hereby grant permission for my idea to be used as a theme for a REAL ART EXHIBITION whereby REAL ARTISTS may submit works of art using any media that does NOT consist of organic matter that was once part of a living creature to portray/express this theme/concept or something of a similar nature. Its about time to teach the World the difference between “bullshit” and ART don’t you think? – Becky Jo Minsky, Artist/Spirit of Our Time.