Mockingbird Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 The Louvre has withdrawn a large installation by a Dutch art and design collective for being sexually explicit — right on the heels of the Guggenheim’s decision to pull three controversial artworks from its upcoming China show. The piece — “Domestikator” by the collective Atelier Van Lieshout, whose outline depicts copulation — was to go on view on Oct. 19 in the Louvre’s Tuileries Gardens as part of Hors les Murs, a public art program organized by the Fiac contemporary art fair. “This is something that should not happen,” Joep van Lieshout, the collective’s founder, said in a telephone interview. “A museum should be an open place for communication. The task of the museum and the press is to explain the work.” “The piece itself, it’s not really very explicit,” Mr. van Lieshout added. “It’s a very abstracted shape. There are no genitals; it’s pretty innocent.” The London-based gallery Carpenters Workshop, which represents Atelier Van Lieshout, said in a statement that the Louvre’s decision was “very damaging for the artists and the Fiac program,” adding, “The artwork symbolizes the power of humanity over the world and its hypocritical approach to nature.” A spokeswoman for the Louvre said that the choice of the works exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens within the framework of the Fiac is made by three committees. “The work ‘Domestikator’ was presented after these commissions,” the spokeswoman said, which didn’t allow for a discussion of the “presentation in the garden collegially.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/arts/design/louvre-pulls-domestikator-sculpture-tuileries-fiac.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mirumir Subscriber¹ Posted October 5, 2017 Subscriber¹ Share Posted October 5, 2017 If that's a piece of artwork than I'm a ballerina. Let a five-year-old watch two dogs having it and he'll create a better structure using his lego cubes. +1 to the Louvre. There's still hope for the Degenerate West to recover. DocM and TPreston 1 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 (edited) I absolutely 100% agree that art can be provocative, and absolutely that is can be divisive towards it's audience. But it seems these days that just doing something provocative and labelling it as art is nothing more than an attention or cash grab with a supposed message used when justification is queried. Does this installation convey a message? Not one that I'm seeing, it's got no real artistic value. Fair play! DocM 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 that's hilarious looking! i didn't think the Louvre would have stuff like that, i mean the person that made it did it as a joke type thing, right? i hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted October 5, 2017 Subscriber² Share Posted October 5, 2017 Good god, Minecraft has invaded the real world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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