Sculpture Presents Christ with a Missile

Case information
Incident date
Country
Spain
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Societal Sphere
  • Arts
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Defamation

Sculpture shows Christ with a Missile instructing Second World War German soldiers in Ferran Cano Art Gallery in Madrid.

On February 10th 2006 the “Ferran Cano” Art Gallery in Madrid opened an exposition presenting, bides other sculptures, a representation of Christ with a missile instructing Second World War German soldiers generated several disputes in an Art Gallery. The author, Spanish artist Oscar Seco, sustained that irony and transgression are the only way to demonstrate that Modern Art is not tamed but critical towards social and religious symbols.

Source: http://www.20minutos.es (february 9th, 2006)