Here is a part of his original [most recent] statement:"Hello everyone. My
name is Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. I am 50 years old and an artist. Recently, I
have been critisized for my work titled "Eres lo que lees", which features a dog
named Nativity. 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.
Now, if you publicly display one of these starving creatures, such as the
case with Nativity, it creates a backlash that brings out a big of hypocrisy in
all of us. Nativity was a very sick creature and would have died in the streets
anyway.
"So there is just this to say: We see, that not only the gallery
was lying from the beginning, but also, what we have to think about all
statements of this "artist".
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