Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland
12 August 2008GENEVA (AFP) — A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled "Complex Shit", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.
The item was picked up by a number media outlets, which did not have any problem with the word "shit". In fact, their bylines were also less tame.
- The Age - Blow-up poo causes museum chaos
- The Australian - Complex Shit causes museum chaos
- Die Welt - Aufblasbarer Hundehaufen fliegt durch Bern
- Daily Telegraph - Giant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity line
- The Guardian - Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum
I'm waiting for the story to be picked up by the American media to see if they actually use the word "shit".
I wonder if the shit hit the fan in Bern.
Here is a picture of what it looks like, when it was installed at Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp.
I wonder if I should start photographing Kane's dog poo in the back yard to enter into photographic competitions. Err, I mean "shit".
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Tuesday. Just three more days to go before the weekend.
2 comments:
Call me a Philistine, but I fail to see the art in a plastic replica of dog shit.
Liz
I reckon some of Kane's might be more artistic!
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