A dying dog is called, a work of art!!

An artist in Costa Rica exhibited an a starving dog as a work of art. It was in a major art exhibit. The dog of course did die. Below are links to the photos and exhibit (in Spanish) and a link to the artists' myspace.com page. I urge you to check them out – I did. I only wish I could starve this guy to death and call it "art".

~~The artists myspace page~~

This post is edited to add the following:

I am getting comments from people that think this is some sick way to promote this man's "art". This could not be further from the truth. I am appalled and sickened by this. I have posted the links above hoping that animal lovers will hound the hell out of that sicko. But to my amazement only 1 person has bothered to click on them – according to my blog stats. Where are my loyal animal loving readers?

April 7. 2008 UPDATE

: It looks like this scum bag's myspace page is no more. My guess is that the people at myspace got wind of the commotion his work of "art" caused and wanted no part of it.

The "artist" has been invited to come back for this years' exhibit. There is an online boycott to ban him from the exhibit this year. To find out more and sign the petition go here. So far there are over 12K signatures on the petition. This guy sure did stir up some hate for himself.

11 Responses to "A dying dog is called, a work of art!!"

Kym says:

2007 at

This is sick! I can’t believe that no one insist the poor pup be cared for!
jolynna says:

2007 at

That is one of the most offensive things I have ever heard of. I cannot believe it was allowed to happen. In that picture people are just walking by as if the dog isn’t a living thing. Horrible.
JJ says:

2007 at

What is really bad about this is the fact that the “artist” stands behind what he did. His myspace page tells much more about it. His blog on his myspace page has plenty of hate comments. He simply laughs at them.
blueshoes2 says:

2008 at

that is so disturbing i am sick..what is even worse than the ‘artist’ who calls animal abuse art are the weak minded people who walk by and dont give the poor dog a ahalf a glance.
its a crime that you attach the word ‘art’ to something~ a starving dog, and its not questioned …i am sick ! this guy needs to be arrested for animal cruelty and neglect and the ‘art patrons’ should be arrested for aiding and abetting the suffering of this poor, innocent dog! why arent costa ricans up in arms ? what is this world coming to ?
blueshoes2 says:

2008 at

please everyone report this guys myspace page to myspace as an offensive page and write every animal welfare group you can think of so this guy doesnt get away with this!
JJ says:

2008 at

Hi blueshoes2,
Many animal rights groups and individual animal lovers have already tried to shut down his myspace account. If you go to the blog part of his myspace you will see a long list of protesting visitors (if he hasn’t removed them by now). Unfortunatly he has freedom of expression and speech. Since the “art” was not done in the USA there is little that can be done other than report it.
lvg4god says:

2008 at

Ok so the dying dog artist is a true beast. Question though – the place where the exhibit was located is full of stray dogs, right? Do you think his horrendous act of refusing mercy and even taking pictures will raise awareness of the greater problem of stray dog over population in Costa Rica? I mean, yes – how could any one go to the exhibit and not help the dog, it’s reprehensible. But how many people stop to feed any stray dog or cat in major cities? And what of the homeless? We don’t typically take pictures of them dying – but just as bad, we walk on and refuse them a cup of water, a warm meal… Sadly our society is full of people who lack the capacity to show mercy. I know you’ve volunteered to help the hungry and many people do things to help – but not enough people acknowledge the harsh realities of life that people and animals starve to death every day and most do nothing to help. This “artist” is despicable – but so am I for not doing more for the thousands of people and animals who go hungry every day. It’s sobering in many ways.
JJ says:

2008 at

Kris, I have indeed investigated this matter before I put it on my blog. If you look at the news story you submitted a link to – it was published in March, 2008 a full 6 months or more after I blogged about the incident. If you had contact the artist in question as many people on myspace did you would find that he did indeed place the dog tied up without food or water and later he himself reported the dog died. He was extremely arrogant about the whole whole thing. He dared people to come and find him or to shut down his web page. This was a man who did not care what people thought of him or his actions. I imagine that the story that you linked here was concocted up by the gallery owner because he was losing business. The dog was starved to death. Maybe YOU should do the research before you go around telling everyone else what a “good guy” the artist is.
yasumoto says:

2008 at

I just had a discussion about this with my colleagues, and we’re all rather appalled by this. I’m kind of worried that so many people would visit the museum and not think about ignorin the “don’t feed” signs, and bring food for the dog..
JJ says:

2008 at

Hi yasumoto,
What I am really surprised about is the fact that this incident of the dog on exhibit is still gathering attention from people that have not heard about it before. The orginal date of the incident is almost a year ago. My original blog post was at least a few weeks or more behind in date from the occurance. I first heard about it when there was a petition going around on myspace. I am only just recently seeing “news” stories about this hitting the major news websites. I guess some “news” still travels slow even in our technology age.
losingsanitylol says:

2008 at

I see only the artist is realy blamed in this matter.
But you have to see that the visitors are just as much to blame. At least one person should have had the guts to cut the dog loose and take it or atleast bring it food. I know it didn’t happen in the USA but there should still be a law against acts such as that. Personaly I think the man who did this [I refuse to say his name sorry] should be treated like the dog for 2 weeks and see how he likes starving and being up for display to the public. REmber ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS TO!!

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