Wednesday - April 20, 2011

a few who didn’t take kindly to cross in urine painting.

Why are they called vandals?  What the fruit faced non talent produced isn’t art.  It isn’t even original in concept. And even if it were, it would not be art. Or perhaps at the very best it might be described as a degenerate display of a deranged mind. But never art.

OK, Rise up Christians everywhere. Riot!  Get your axes out and behead those who .... who .... ooops. Wrong religion. Never Mind.

U.S. artist’s controversial ‘Piss Christ’ attacked by vandals in France

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A controversial piece of art which shows a crucifix bathed in urine has been vandalised in a gallery in southern France.

Police are today searching for the vandals who targeted the piece in Avignon just hours after 800 protesters held a demonstration against it.

The work by U.S. artist Andres Serrano - called ‘Piss Christ’ - is supposed to make a statement about the misuse of religion.

But when the part taxpayer-funded 1987 piece - which has also been described as ‘blasphemous’ - first went on display in the U.S. it was so controversial that it sparked a fierce debate about whether art should be publicly funded at all.

A second piece which shows a nun with her hands in her lap was also damaged during the break-in to the Collection Lambert modern art museum.

Mr Serrano’s work has previously been targeted by vandals while on display in Sweden and Australia.

Police said two people tried to enter the museum late on Sunday morning carrying a can of paint spray and a chisel in their jackets.

A guard removed the objects - just as a third person took a hammer to the piece.

The attacker struggled with a guard, but helped by an accomplice, managed to escape, police said.

The museum’s doors were shut yesterday for its weekly closing but it was expected to re-open today with the damaged work on display so that the public can see what the vandals have done.

French culture minister Frederic Mitterand described the incident as an ‘attack on the freedom of creation’.

Staff had closed early on Saturday because of the protest.

A worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said that they had also received death threats.

‘Several people have called saying, “If you open, you’re dead”,’ one museum worker said.

‘We’re nervous and we have asked for protection from the police.’

It was unclear whether the attack was linked to the earlier demonstration.

Serrano made the controversial work by placing a crucifix in urine and blood, and it has drawn criticism in the past from some Christian groups.

Young far-Right Christian activists from the General Alliance Against Racism and the Respect of the French and Christian Identity are taking the Collection Lambert to court tomorrow to try to have the crucifix photograph removed from the exhibit.

The group denounced the photograph on its website, saying it ‘insults and injures Christians at the heart of their faith’.

photos here

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