Is this art, animal cruelity or just a really hip BLT?
The artist is a Belgiam man named Wim Delvoye. The pigs were taken out of Shanghai's largest art fair, Shcontemporary. Chinese authorities banned the pig exhibition, Delvoye says, "not because of sanitation issues, not because of animal rights, not because of ideological considerations, not because there's something anti-communist, not because there's nudity in it — but this time it was not allowed because it was not art."
Instead, Delvoye is putting on display a Swiss man named Tim Steiner, whose back Delvoye has tattooed with a scene featuring the Virgin Mary. Steiner spent 35 hours being tattooed and had no choice in the scenes inked onto his body.
The artist is a Belgiam man named Wim Delvoye. The pigs were taken out of Shanghai's largest art fair, Shcontemporary. Chinese authorities banned the pig exhibition, Delvoye says, "not because of sanitation issues, not because of animal rights, not because of ideological considerations, not because there's something anti-communist, not because there's nudity in it — but this time it was not allowed because it was not art."
Instead, Delvoye is putting on display a Swiss man named Tim Steiner, whose back Delvoye has tattooed with a scene featuring the Virgin Mary. Steiner spent 35 hours being tattooed and had no choice in the scenes inked onto his body.
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