It was not immediately clear whether the assailant was part of a demonstration a day earlier by a right-wing group denouncing the 1987 photograph as blasphemous and demanding its removal from the exhibition, entitled "I Believe in Miracles." According to police, citing witnesses, two people tried to enter the museum late on Sunday morning carrying a can of paint spray and a chisel in their jackets.
The guard removed the objects - just as a third person took a hammer to "Immersion." The attacker struggled with a guard, but helped by an accomplice, managed to escape, police said. In the struggle, he apparently damaged another work, "The Church (Sister Jeanne-Myriam)," which shows a nun praying.
Serrano made the controversial work by placing a crucifix in urine and blood, and it has drawn criticism in the past from some Christian groups. Young far-right Christian activists from the General Alliance Against Racism and for the Respect of the French and Christian Identity is taking the Collection Lambert to court to try to have the crucifix photograph removed from the exhibit. The group denounced the photograph saying it "insults and injures Christians at the heart of their faith."
5 comments:
haaaa ! "ze good ol' days", when hitler dictated what was art & what not
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entartete_Kunst
(they even burned picasso's & dali's... dang !)
2ldmoe/b/
I agree, the immersion of something so important to so many people in piss and blood under the false shield of "art" was a barbaric act performed by deranged idiots.
You're certainly free to think that, Brian. It still doesn't change the fact people violently storming an art gallery to vandalise other people's property inside is barbaric. I concede it's not necessarily deranged and idiotic, the people could have done this "in cold blood", as they say, instead of as a mob action fueled by rage and emotion. It doesn't make it any more right, though.
As a professional artist I can't condone destroying artwork. Yet, I must admit that I am fairly apathetic about this case.
I'm a proper agnostic with definite leaning towards atheism. That said, this sort of artwork seemingly has only been created to insult and inflame a certain section of society or created to get the most amount of controversy/publicity.
I have no time for this sort of artwork or artist.
I'm not sure why it's so offensive. Did Jesus never urinate? Or was he too holy for that?
Yes, the intent of the art was probably to shock and provoke... but if you really think about it, what's so offensive about two bodily fluids that everybody has?
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