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Monday, 5 November 2007

To stop further misinformation - basic data about the "artist"

  • His real name is Guillermo Vargas Jiménez, the "artist name" is Habacuc.
  • [Update] Here are real life photos of the "artist", approved by Mr.Jaime Sancho and eyewitnesses from Latin America:

    The photos originate from another of his nice exibitions (live pornography and prostitution via web-cam), which was btw. paid by the government of Spain, as a "cultural event".
  • He was born in 1975 in San José, Costa Rica, is also not 50, but around 32 years old
  • His major stand alone exhibitions: Graffiti Galería Cultura (2001); Expocisión # 1 Galeria Codice Managua, Nicaragua (2002); Exorcision, Jacob Karpio Galería, San José, Costa Rica (2002); Alfombra Roja [The Red Carpet]. 300kilos de tomates (2006).
  • Collective exhibitions, were he was one of the participants: Cuidado Pinta o Des-construcciones Pictóricas, Museo De Arte Y Diseño Contemporáneo MACO, México, D.F. (2005); FIA, Festival Internacional de las Artes; San José, Costa Rica (2006); Nuevas tendencias del arte costaricense, Waschington DC, museo del BID (2007).
  • His most recent exhibition took place in Washington DC from 24 May to 10 August 2007, here is the address of the gallery/cultural center:
  • IDB Cultural Center
    Inter-American Development Bank
    1300 New York Avenue, N. W.
    Washington, D.C. 20577
    The homepage of this cultural center is: http://www.iadb.org/cultural/
    The following works were displayed:
    Composición y Foto No. 13 (Composition and
    Photograph No. 13), 2007
    acrylic and digital photography diptych
    1.00 x 2.00 mts
    Composición y Foto No. 12 (Composition and
    Photograph No. 12), 2007
    acrylic and digital photography diptych
    1.00 x 2.20 mts
    Composición y Foto No. 7 (Composition and
    Photograph No. 7), 2007
    acrylic and digital photography diptych
    0.96 x 1.50 mts
    [His most "outstanding" work of art in this exhibition was a "pile of trash"].
  • The prizes he received: 1 prize Bienarte 2005, San José, Costa Rica; 1 prize Bienarte 2007, San José, Costa Rica (after killing the dog several weeks before);
  • He is the founder of the Galería Cultura, FECOU, San José, Costa Rica.
I have absolutely nothing against modern art. If it is art. Like Dali, or Picasso, or Warhol, name your favorite... But here is obviously somebody who tries to "win the game" through plain, stupid and senseless inhumanity. When inhumanity becomes art, the art will die. You know, anybody can shit on the side walk, upload this to YouTube and call himself artist. And when excrements are not enough, then it "has to be stronger", what will come after the dead dog, dead beggars, starved street children, "live" torture? Should this become our future?

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8 comments:

pedro said...
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Esther said...

this really makes me lose faith in mankind :(

Sarah said...

I started a group on facebook to support this petitionhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28806225327
more than 200 people joined in 48 hours and still growing. I would like to believe in humanity again just because of this number. but it is still rustrating that some people are questioning and supporting the so called artist. and Snopes.com listed the story as "Undetermined".

peter said...

this person is very clever. he wants to create noise through controversy and get himself some free publicity. hopefully the world will see this, and recognise such disingenuous "artistic" practices for the sham they are.

Karen said...

yo creo en arte moderno, pero esto no es arte, esto solo es una maldad de un hombre que tiene serios problemas emocionales. se dice que el are se siente, si tu GUILLERMO, querias ver como la gente reaccionaba al ver muerte te hubieras atado tu a esa soga. asi tu tambien lo hubieras sentido como ese pobre animal antes de morrir, pero aqui el animal no es natividad, el animal eres tu

Anonymous said...

I'm curious if Guillermo Vargas Habacuc would pose for such "art"...since we're "all going to die anyway". I think he's dispicable, as is anyone who supports this, and wouldn't even give him the coutesy of any recognition if it wasn't so important to oppose it publicly. I just hope he doesn't reap any rewards as a result of all this.

Anonymous said...

By diplaying this cruelty you are not only promoting but influencing others that are just as sick and twisted as yourself. Apparently, due to lack of your education, obviously you do not understand the concept of art or how to get a message across to the public. I hope you live a long a miserable life filled with more useless "art."
"Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know." - Rembrandt van Rijn

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