Why is Guillermo Vargas Habacuc getting away with such cruelty?

Question:This is a very serious matter...

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved 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.

please help to stop this :

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In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved 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.

please help to stop this :

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/peti...

At first I thought that because he lives in Latin America, which is notorious for human rights abuses, geography probably had something to do with it. It stands to reason that the abuse of animals also would be tolerated more so in such a region than in some other places of the world. Animals, however, have been abused at these types of performances in North America, as well as in Europe.

The performance, not doubt was considered to be a piece of "performance art", which by definition involves the artists themselves using their own bodies in front of an audience, often talking, singing or dancing. It is a continuation of the "Happening" in Dadaism during the time betwen the two world wars. At one "happening" Robert Rauschenberg, presumably a Swede, made turtles wander around in the dark with flashlights strapped their backs.

Normally, the performance artists degrade and injure themselves. For example, one artist named Joseph Bueys walked around with his face covered in gold leaf and honey, explaining paintings to a dead rabbit cradled in his arms. (The rabbit obviously had been killed for a needless purpose.) Others have engaged openly in acts of sexual perversion. A Viennese group once smeared sheep blood and entrails on participants and crucified them upside down in an art gallery. One of them died from self-mutilation. Sheep, as well as humans, were tortured and abused here. An American named Chris Burden once had someone shoot him in a Los Angeles art gallery. Burden, another time, had live wires grounded to his chest, making sparks, in the name of art.

Little can be done about acts of violence, abuse and torture thant are totally unanticipated and could not have been predicted. However, human rights and animal rights legislation should be enforcing international guidelines on what is permitted on both animals and humans in this type of "artistic expression".

maybe another "creative" artist should tie guillermo to a rope put him a gallery , starve him to death so other people can watch emotionless..
personally i would applaud that for the sick artist