Guillermo Vargas Habacuc & the Question of Art

[thefloodlands]

Dog Starved to Death in Gallery

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For those who haven't gotten the myspace/facebook forwardings concerning the mass tar&feathering of Costa Rican Conceptual Arteest Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, here is a snippet of his statement:

Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:"Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years

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[fearsclave]

The world is not a warm safe fuzzy place. Luckily, we live in one of the safest, wealthiest, healthiest, most entertained societies on Earth. Most of us are so utterly disconnected from reality as a result that we get upset whenever we see something that reminds us that outside our lovely, comfortable First World cities the world is largely an impoverished, brutal, violent, hungry, and disease-ridden place

[thefloodlands]

Hahah, the polly anna mantra. I'm gonna quote you on that.

[fearsclave]

I can't ake credit for it, unfortunately; it's been floating around the net in doomy circles for a while now...

[mangokat]

Thanks for posting your totally realistic views. I'm not so elegant or verbose, but I completely agree with you.

[thefloodlands]

Lol, you called me "elegant and verbose". I was hoping i could get my thoughts across without sounding too twatty. Thanks and much love from the Southz.

[mangokat]

Twatty? Not in the least. Of course I might have misspent my youth reading too many art history texts...

[sc0rpius]

Thank you for posting that. I couldn't agree more.