Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, Bienarte, Maltratador de Animales. Costa Rican artist
Guillermo Habacuc Vargas' exhibit
El Perrito Vive has drawn a number of criticisms from concerned animal rights activists after he allegedly starved and deprived a dog named Natividad as an installation piece. The exhibit was
accepted into the very prestigious Biennial of Central America. Vargas' defense of the work was as
follows: "The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought." Vargas
refused to tell whether the animal had survived the show but the Códice Gallery claims "It was untied all the time except for the three hours the exhibition lasted and it was fed regularly with dog food Habacuc himself brought in."posted by
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