Odd Central Park Barbaro Memorial
 

http://www.send2press.com:80/newswir...0123-004.shtml

Very odd story in NYC where controversial artist Daniel Edwards, in concert with the Leo Kesting Gallery and as part of a 'Barbaros Law movement', are placing a statue/memorial in Central Park. Somewhat horrifying image below depicting 'Barbaro's inability to walk'... as well as 'Smoothie', a Carriage Horse killed last year.


'Plea For Disclosure of Race Fatalities'; 'Sympathetic to NYC Carriage Horses'
http://barbaroslaw.com/

I think I will be paying a visit to that gallery on the next dark day. There's nothing like someone speaking about which they know nothing.

Their press release shows a real understanding of racing when they said " Barbaro, winner of the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory since 1946, was considered a shoe-in for the Triple Crown and the English Derby. "

Nothing like someone desperate for attention. Shame on NYC for allowing this type of desperate attention getting crap to get public funds as well as a public display.

I also liked his other sculptures.....Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Prince Harry. What a phucking opportunist.

to bizarre for me.:confused:

Unbelievable. One of the sickest things I have seen.

RIP Barbaro, and please forgive pathetic humans such as this 'artist'.

For anyone who didn't bother clicking on the link, his other "works" include.....


" a nude Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug, an interactive autopsy of Paris Hilton with removable organs, and a war dead Prince Harry clutching the cameo-locket of his late mother Princess Diana.

I have no problem with the way an artist chooses to depict his subject... freedom of expression.

That said, this ain't art. It's an attempt at shock, propaganda, and it uses and belittles the memory of Barbaro and his fight for life, demeaning it and wrapping it up into a little package for the non-racing world to see. Eight months of heroic deeds and this is the "artist" they choose? This is the "work" they okay?

Shame on them.

I have a story and I've wanted to post it but there was never the appropriate thread... I think this one will do.

After a horse i loved broke down, i was telling a friend about him.... a profesional, guy in his 40's, educated... we had never talked about racing before.

I was stunned.... he actually said "so they shot him on the track?".

He was serious.

This world we live in... these people that don't follow racing... they don't know. They don't know at all and they never will.

Where i live racing has such a bad rap.

So while i like to think the good people of New York, my home town, won't be suckered in and fooled by this kinda **** I wonder.....

Rest in peace, Barbaro. What A Lost Texan said.....

"It was reported that in the end, Barbaro was biting at people before he was finally allowed to die with dignity."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he a 'bitey' type of horse anyway? It is ridiculous how people get this stuff turned around.

I second this notion. What a sick f*ck. This shouldn't be allowed on public lands.

Art is art....and the artist has the right to express himself as he wishes. The people in the wrong are those in NYC that have granted him public funds and public grounds for exposure.

Hopefully it is not too late to bring this to the attention of the right people and have this mistake corrected.

Correct... he can do what he wants in his own private gallery but not on public money/lands, ESPECIALLY mine and ESPECIALLY this subject.

Only slightly less disturbing than the "artist" who collected his own "shots" as "art".
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sperm...en-76190.shtml

Now, I have seen it all.. lol.. According to him they are "Heartfelt and delicate".. Arrruugghhhh...

Fair enough, I was being pissy... it's art and i don't have to like it, look at it, etc. but sometimes i think the word art is used as an excuse for propaganda, self-promotion, etc.

Agree with all the posts on here....

i can see the pidgon shiet on it now........

It's no chocolate Jesus; that's for sure.

Did you guys read the www.barbaroslaw.com website?

This is the first broad shot of wackjob Animal Rights activists in their fight against horse racing. The purpose of Barbaroslaw is to encourage people not to support, attend, or wager on horseracing.

It's appalling that they corrupt Barbaro's name by association with this crap. I wonder if the Jackson's can do anything to stop it?

PS nice comment BTW

Good art is supposed to produce emotion. That's just emotion I don't want to have.

Totally agree!