I have just read on a horse forum with disgust that this artist Guillermo Vargas Habacuc in 2007 caught a stray dog tied it to a lampost outside a art gallery and let it starve to death and classed it as art and he is planning to do it again this year, there is a petition I have just signed if anyone wishes to sign it I will put the link on.  Google his name if you want to find more, just when I thought the human race could not stoop any lower. I am sadened and sickened.

I googled the artitst's name and saw this poor dog "exhibited". That is truly disgusting and cannot believe that anyone would consider it art in any form what so ever. I also can't believe that visitors to the exhibition did nothing about that poor dogs suffering. Horrific.

I read about this last year, it is disgusting. How can people walk around and just ignore the poor little dog.
It makes me sick the kind of world we live in, watching a dog starve to death is not art its sick and cruel, something should be done about this so called artist.
How would he feel if he was put on display and starved to death?

OMg that is so sad- Someone should shackle him up and not feed him and use him for art-

I will definitely be signing.

When David Blane attempted the same thing in London, (at least on himself) he wondered why many boo'd and threw eggs at him, how can someone or something starving be anything but insane.

There is real suffering going on in the world and thousands already starving in 3rd world countries....... how can that be art.

As far as I am concerned people like this should be having therapy.

Here is the link to the petition.  It is in a different language.  All it asks in your name, email and town and country. 

  http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/

Thanks

:-( This has made me sick to the stomach :-(

I have signed along with the rest of my family

I saw this last year too.

I simply cannot believe that people walked past this and watched that poor defenceless dog lie dying before their eyes.

They all want shooting, the whole lot of them.

I was distraught when i saw it.

It beggars belief that this person wasnt prosecuted for this.  Starve them too i say.
an eye for an eye.....

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That artist wants to be imprisoned for animal cruelty and all his money donated to an animal charity.  Who the hell does he think he is to play god in the name of art!  I am so angry.

I signed- hopefully something is done about this....

Disgusting if true, however, doing a search on the urban legends website Snopes brings up some info and they say it's undetermined as to whether the dog was starved to death.  It differs from the petition version in that the dog wasn't tied to a lamp post, but was in a room in the gallery and the gallery owner has stated that the dog was actually well fed and escaped.

What is wrong with the world? Where is the humanity? Isn't that what makes us above the animal kingdom? To be in the position of being able to help some poor suffering animal and actually do it. Isn't that what life is about?

To torture this poor creature and title it's suffering in words made of the food it so desperatly needs makes him and his supporters less than human.

Art by definition is something that is beautiful and appealing, not something horrific and stomach turning.

this man is truely evil.

I have signed and am appalled.

I cannot believe that in the year 2008 NO ONE is doing anything about this. I know that we do get (hidden ) cruelty in britain, but if this happend in the open we would not accept it.

Why, oh why, has this evil creature not been arrested?   What sort of "spectator" wouldn't ensure this dog was taken away by the authorities if not by themselves???

It's sadism - how can that openly happen in the western world today :( :( :(

 

Is this the same story as the artist who tied up a dog inside the art studio then let people come to look at it until it starved to death??? The OP says tied to a lampost but the pics i saw were of the dog inside a studio.
This was a post on here a few weeks ago. I signed the petition then but for some reason i think the post got removed.
Will be signing it again. Think it is disgusting. Words cannot express how appauled i am.
Would pay to see the artist strung up until he died of starvation. Infact, i be extra cruel and put a nice meal and drink in the room with him - just out of reach. Maybe that would teach him a lesson

This is where art is going with Damien Hurst Tracey Emin and that artist who carved his head out of 7 pints of his own frozen blood etc getting so wealthy and famous for using shock tactics instead of devoting hours to paintig beautiful paintings which leave an artist unnoticed. The galleries seem to only be intersted imn art if it is sick. Ultimately this stretching boundaries has nowhere possitive to go,imo.

I will copy the article and include it in my art course work to back up my opinion that art should be a creative and not a destructive process.

this is not art it is SICK beyond belief.

I dont even know how someone can call it art. Not only do i blame the artist but also the sad sick individulas who go and witness such barbaric "works of art" (and i use that term loosely). If people stopped going to see it these "artists" would stop doing it. I question someones mental health to even come up with these ideas - sick!!!

I've signed the petition. It makes me so sad that people get away with this sort of cruelty and then to call it art :-( that artist is clearly unstable.

Ive signed too, im absolutely disgusted this was allowed to happen. Poor little soul.
mel.

i've signed and emailed it to everyone i know , surley there are animal authorities in these countries that should have done something about it.

Peanuts

ive signed it too, was very sad and appalled that nobody tried to help the poor dog

I've signed, and agree, how could people allow this to happen.

Ive signed, and ive signed on behalf of everyone i can think of!

Its absolutely disgusting. What the hell is he, the gallery and the public who come to gawp, thinking?

As for the gallery claiming the dog was fed and then later 'escaped', well surely the rights of the animal were infringed when it was taken and used as a living (or should that be, dying) display in the name of 'art'. That, surely, is bad enough in its own right?

Absolutely tasteless and foul.

Signed :-(