Dog killed in the name of art
Hi all,
this is a very serious matter…In the 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving 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.
Does it look like art to you?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.
WE NEED TO STOP HIM!Click on the following link
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition-sign.html
or
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html or just copy it in your browser to sign a petion to stop him to do it again, then digit the name Guillermo Vargas Habacuc to find the petition to sign.Please do it. It’s free of charge and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.
Please also send this e-mail to as many contact as you can… Let’s stop him!!!If you want to double check all the above informations you can google the name of the ‘artist’ to see all I have just said corresponds to truth.
Thank you
April 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
TY for posting about this!!! This is beyond wrong and it sickens me to think that not a damned soul there felt the need to be a compasionate human being and stand up for what they should have known to be an unjustifiable cruelty. It’s a shame you can’t “trace” tickets that easily, because every person that attended that show are guilty by association. Passing the petition along my way, ty you again!
April 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I signed this petition through a group on Facebook.
I think this “artist” should be tied up and denied food (lets see if he thinks that’s art)!!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
This was a hoax http://thepetextraordinarium.blogspot.com/2008/03/starving-dog-exhibit-reported-as-hoax.html I can provide a million other links if you want me to.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Nope not a hoax. Looked at Snopes.com to check it out first.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/vargas.asp
Also Vargas has made up several different stories now to try and get his butt out of the line of fire.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am
PETA also says it was a hoax http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/04/artist_starving.php though they still think he should be arrested for animal cruelty for taking the dog off the street then turning it loose again. I looked at snopes and they say basically the same thing as PETA, it was part hoax (in that the animal was not actually starved nor did it die) but that the exhibit actually happened. Both sites say it is incorrect that the artist is planning to do it again. I’m sorry, I get so upset when things like this get so much attention when there are a million legitimate cases of much worse animal cruelty going on right under our noses, and I’m sure that people who are horribly outraged over this story and circulating this petition have no problem eating at KFC http://www.kfccruelty.com/
April 29th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Niether Snopes or Peta said it was a hoax. There were some unfounded claims concerning Vargas repeating the cruelty to another dog.
The WSPA aslo mentioned in their letter to Snopes that the dog was not replaced after it had died. So the deed was real and the dog did die from cruelty