[NetBehaviour] A New "Sensation"?: Kippenberger's Crucified Frog Condemned by Catholics.

[marc garrett]

A New "Sensation"?: Kippenberger's Crucified Frog Condemned by Catholics.

Steven Kaplan - post,thing.net

Feet First (Prima i piedi) (1990), Martin Kippenberger's three foot high 
wooden sculpture of a crucified frog in loincloth, brandishing a mug of 
beer and an egg, has been at the center of an escalating dispute since 
it went on exhibit in May 2008 at the newly opened Museion in Bolzano, 
Italy.

Museum officials have insisted on their institutional autonomy and 
freedom of expression, while various clergy, government functionaries 
and Vatican spokesmen, even Pope Benedict XVI himself, have denounced it 
as provocative and blasphemous, and demanded its removal. To support 
this there have been various actions, including a hunger strike by a 
local politician, a petition signed by 10,000 local citizens, and a 
protest march.

In response, the frog was moved from the entrance hall to the third 
floor, and at one point partially covered with newspaper stories about 
the controversy. But apparently nothing short of its total removal will 
be acceptable to its critics.

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