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Thread: Art Fuss: Terence Koh’s Jesus Erection Statue
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[quote=GUEST83420,318789]I feel a bit sorry for the artist really. Everyone is just assuming that he is attention seeking but this has been taken way out of context. The offending piece is from an installation that fills a large white room a huge amount of objects. Firstly the gallery ruins it by only showing a small section of it and putting that awful black and white pattern behind it, then somebody intent on being offended breaks it down even further by taking one tiny element of the remaining work. Then everyone starts getting on the artist's back for trying to be deliberately offensive. The only reason you recognize it as Jesus is because it's been so over-used as a commercial image (as have all the other elements to the piece). It's not a sacred image, it's a bit of tat used in every kitsch manner possible. It's not a dig at Jesus or Christianity at all. How would you depict Mohammad in the same way?[/quote]
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