The Penis as Art
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In the 21st century displaying your cock at an art gallery hardly seems radical, transgressive or whatever.
At an aesthetic event in that cultural center Miami Florida:
… There was a traffic jam of people clustered around a section of the gallery where a drawing of Bert Rodriguez’s face was on the wall and, a couple of feet below the drawing, a hole in the wall that looked like an out-of-place birdhouse. People whispered and giggled. Although you couldn’t see him, Bert Rodriguez was sealed into a space behind the wall. At different times during the evening, his erect penis emerged from the wall, stayed in place for a few seconds, and then withdrew.
In the context of the show, this was a performance provoking hysterical guffaws. It was a visceral assertion of an artist’s right to make his own artistic statement no matter what, saying in essence the crudest thing possible to tastemakers and the rapacious art market.
Snitzer show brings 59 homegrown artists together
Comments
I’m cracking up just picturing this in my head.
Posted by: roo-roo | July 23, 2007 10:05 AM