Post by guillaume on Apr 20, 2011 11:06:36 GMT
It is a subject that many medias are talking about in France at the moment.
The "piss Christ" is a 1987 photography taken by Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. A print of the photograph was damaged using a screwdriver or icepick on April 17, 2011 while on exhibit in Avignon, France. (Wikipedia).
Some traditionalist movement, via the Internet, had called to end this exhibit which is blasphemy against God and many Christians.
They called the director of the museum, the Mayor of Avignon with no result. An online petition reunited more than 80 000 signatures, and a protest assembled 1500 persons at the door of the museum in Avignon.
Most medias had expressed their "shock" regarding this act. The minister for culture, Frederic Mitterand, said it was an attempt to the liberty of expression. It is the same person who actually used this "liberty" in a book in which he expressed how much he enjoyed looking for young boys while on a trip to Thailand.
While the print of Piss Christ is partially destroyed, the exhibit reopened.
So what do you think ? Do you think the destruction of the print was an act of courage and should be praised. Or it was an illegal act, against the "liberty of expression" ?
If a figure of Buddha or Mahomet had been plunged into human urine, taken in a picture then exposed publicly, the media treatment would had been the same ? Surely the exhibit would have close in no time.
We can remember when Pastor Jones was about to burn the Koran (which he did by the way). The whole world was revolting against it.
Yet it is the Christians who feels guilty. Yet it is the Christians, the "ultra Catholics" as some French media calls the trads (lol) who are responsible.
This is what France had become. Not only a secular country BUT a country AGAINST Christianity ans catholic values.
This is also what Ireland is becoming little by little.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-france-art-idUSTRE73H4JR20110418
The "piss Christ" is a 1987 photography taken by Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. A print of the photograph was damaged using a screwdriver or icepick on April 17, 2011 while on exhibit in Avignon, France. (Wikipedia).
Some traditionalist movement, via the Internet, had called to end this exhibit which is blasphemy against God and many Christians.
They called the director of the museum, the Mayor of Avignon with no result. An online petition reunited more than 80 000 signatures, and a protest assembled 1500 persons at the door of the museum in Avignon.
Most medias had expressed their "shock" regarding this act. The minister for culture, Frederic Mitterand, said it was an attempt to the liberty of expression. It is the same person who actually used this "liberty" in a book in which he expressed how much he enjoyed looking for young boys while on a trip to Thailand.
While the print of Piss Christ is partially destroyed, the exhibit reopened.
So what do you think ? Do you think the destruction of the print was an act of courage and should be praised. Or it was an illegal act, against the "liberty of expression" ?
If a figure of Buddha or Mahomet had been plunged into human urine, taken in a picture then exposed publicly, the media treatment would had been the same ? Surely the exhibit would have close in no time.
We can remember when Pastor Jones was about to burn the Koran (which he did by the way). The whole world was revolting against it.
Yet it is the Christians who feels guilty. Yet it is the Christians, the "ultra Catholics" as some French media calls the trads (lol) who are responsible.
This is what France had become. Not only a secular country BUT a country AGAINST Christianity ans catholic values.
This is also what Ireland is becoming little by little.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-france-art-idUSTRE73H4JR20110418