WTF??? This is horrible & beyond shocking.. I will be posting this for others.
thanks

I copied some of what was written on the site... here ya go...
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This was passed along to me as the ‘artist’s MySpace page - You can check it out.

EXHIBITION IS TAKING PLACE AT:

Gallery Website

Email Address:
info@madc.ac.cr

Location:
Centro Nacional de la Cultura
Antigua Fábrica Nacional de Licores.
Avenida 3, calle 15/17. San José, Costa Rica.
Teléfono: (506) 257 7202 / 257 9370
Fax: (506) 257 8702

Sample Letter to Send the Gallery
I am writing regarding the horrifying actions of Guillermo Habacuc Vargas,who paid local children to catch a dog on the street and then confined,starved and publicly displayed the dog as an “art” exhibit until the innocent animal died of starvation.

I along with many people world wide am outraged t hat Guillermo habacuc Vargas has been selected to represent Costa Rica in “Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008″,This man is by no definition of the word an artist he is a criminally insane sadist and enjoys inflicting prolonged suffering upon his innocent victims.he is a danger to all of society as it is well documented that those with the capacity to intentionally cause harm to an animal have the same capacity to harm humans.

To state that this animal would have died eventually of natural causes is unjustifiable and beyond logical,rational thinking.

'Art' - dead dog on displayTo allow Guillermo habacuc Vargas to represent Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 will in no way benefit Costa Rica,the world is watching and the actions of this so called artist has brought much negative assumptions as to the humanity of the people of Costa Rica and the fact that the many witnesses of this animals suffering did nothing and that the organizers of this event allowe d this rather than taking action to see that Guillermo Vargas be criminally charged with animal abuse is sending the world a message that Costa Rica consists of a cruel,uncivilized society that has no regard for life but enjoys viewing and contributing to the loss of life.

Each and every person who knew of and witnessed the suffering of this innocent dog is equally as guilty of causing it’s uncalled for death.

And to let this crime go unpunished and instead be awarded by Guillermo Vargas representing Costa Rica in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 is unacceptable and shameful not only to Costa Rica but to all participants of this event.

I urge you,do not condone the heinous actions of Guillermo Vargas by allowing him to participation in Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008.He should be jailed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of law for this animals death,not representing Costa Rica as an artist for he is not an artist and to refer to him as such is an insult to all true artists.

Sincerely,
Your Name
ANOTHER GALLERY SHOWING HIS WORK
This is the email addy to a gallery which currently holds some of vargas’ work for display and for sale if anyone would like to ask the gallery to drop him from their list of artists their email address is below.
EMail: info@jacobkarpio-galeria.com
INFORMATION ABOUT EXHIBIT
What he says on his blog (translated) Located HereAccording to I knew the dog died on the following day by lack of food. During the inauguration I knew that the dog was persecuted in the evening between the houses of aluminum and cardboard of a dis trict of Managua with santo name who Habacuc that could not need at the moment. 5 children of whom they helped in the capture received 10 bonds of córdobas by their collaboration. During the exhibition some people requested the freedom of the small dog, to which he artist rehuso. The name of the dog was (it was) Natividad, and I let myself to him die of at sight hunger of all, as if the death of a poor dog was a shameless mediatic show in which nobody does nothing else that to applaud or to watch disturbed. Definitively we are what leimos: pure croquetas. In the place that the dog was exposed single it has left a metal cable and a cord. The dog was extremely ill, renqueaba and it did not want to eat anyway, so in natural surroundings it had died anyway; but thus they are all the poor dogs: sooner or later they die or they die them.

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Here are two news sources, they are not in English tho, so for those of you who think this is some kind of a hoax or joke, it’s not!

Foreign News Sources - Nacion.com, ABC.es

From Nacion.com

Exposition carried out in gallery Codex in Nicaragua
Costa Rican artist wrapped in polemics by death of dog in work
‘Habacuc’ collected to hungry animal and used it in its work “Exposition N°1″
Defenders of animals repudiate the action and they ask to exclude artist of biennial

The costa rican artist Guillermo steep Slopes, more known as Habacuc, is wrapped in a great polemics due to the death of a stray dog inside Exposition N° 1, sample that was carried out last August in Managua (Nicaragua).

Various defenders of the animals in Costa Rica were informed of their work through a blog and they accused it yesterday of cruelty.

What was seen in Managua. As part of its exposition, the artist faced Al spectator to a sick, thin stray dog and with hunger hitched to the corner of the room. He captured Al animal in a poor neighborhood of Managua.

The dog died after a day in the exposition, according to it was confirmed to The Nation Marta Leonor González, publisher of the cultural supplement of The Press in Nicaragua.

The sample also included the phrase, written with food of dog, “you Are what read”; as well as of an audio with the Hymn Sandinista Al reverse, photos and a censer, where they burned 175 stones of crack and an ounce of marijuana.

Habacuc said yesterday that its work was a homage to Nativity Locks, Nicaraguan that died after to be attacked by two dogs rottweiler in a workshop in Carthage.

“I reserve me to say if is certain or that not the dog died. What is important for me was the hypocrisy of the people: an animal thus becomes focus of attention when I put it in a white place where the people is going to see art but not when is in the starving street. Equal passed with Nativity Locks, the people was sensitized with him until they were eaten it the dogs”, explained.

Even it added: “Nobody came free Al dog neither gave food or called the police. Nobody did nothing”.

Al to be questioned about if fed Al animal or not, the artist refused to respond.

Why did not it use another middle of expression? “I collect what I look at… The dog is more I live that never because continues giving what to speak”, said.

Costa Rican anger. Various defenders of the rights of the animals repudiated that work of Habacuc, they disqualified him as work of art and they suggested that Al artist be excluded him of the central american Biennial Honduras 2008, since he will be one of the six representatives of the country.

“I frightened me Al to see that is promoted the cruelty toward the animals in a work of art. We will present a letter so that be prohibited the cruelty in the art and so that this boy do not dam you Al country in the biennial”, he expressed Gina Malavassi, champion of the animals.

José Moral, vice president of the Special Unit of Protection and Animal Rescue, he thought. “The dog was hitched and without food; I do not understand in what head that is art”.

Liliam Schnog, president of the Humane Association for the Animal Protection, said that does not understand how was left to die of hunger to an animal if at par there was a done phrase with food.

These organizations study the case in order to seeing if proceeds some accusation.