Pereiraville

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12
Aug
2008

H/T poker buddy Fred.

The feces really hit the, um, power lines and a green house in Switzerland.

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.

Leave it to an American artist to think feces is art.

The art work, titled “Complex S(expletive..)”, is the size of a house.

Is “Complex S(expletive)” really a better term in writing than just writing out “shit”? Really? Because I look at that and see only “complex sex,” which carries my mind right down the drain and into the sludge in the gutter.

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.

Look! Up there in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… it’s… SHIT!

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.

Is anyone else giggling over this giant flying turd having a malfunctioning safety system?

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

Pity. I think giant inflatable feces is just the kind of art exhibit people would flock to.

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Your 2¢

  1. pam Said,

    Ya gotta face it… that’s just funny! ;)
    pam’s last blog post..Bree got her own boy

  2. Rob Farrington Said,

    We have our own share of ‘artists’ like that over here, too. Just google ‘Tracy Emin’, if you haven’t heard of her already..

    I would have liked to have seen that, though - it would have been one of those Experiences that you’d like to tell the grandchildren about one day.

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