Posted by
InchDeep on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:21:28 PM
Yes a frog on a cross with a beer in one hand and an egg in the other, And people are surprised when Christians take offense. But note, there are not protests in the street no one has been killed. Why because Christianity is compatible with freedom of speech where Islam is not. Christian object and move one. Muslims are today still organizing boycotts over the Mohammad cartoons. And if possible, some of these Muslims would take the heads of anyone who prints those cartoons again. Christianity equals freedom, including speech, Islam equals repression.
Here is the story from www.thelocal.de
A sculpture of a crucified frog at a modern art museum in Italy has stirred controversy in the staunchly Roman Catholic country.
“We’ve decided that a leaflet about this work will be distributed to all visitors to explain its artistic value,” a spokesman at the museum in northeastern Balzano told AFP on Monday.
The work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, about one metre (three feet) high, shows a bright green frog on a cross gripping a mug of beer on one side and an egg on the other.
Curators say the sculpture is a self-portrait of the artist “in a profound state of crisis,” according to the ANSA news agency.
“Although it is not our policy to pass judgement on works of art, the sculpture could be perceived as a provocation by the people of the Alto Adige region, which is 99 percent Catholic,” regional governor Luis Durnwalder told ANSA.
Balzano Bishop Wilhelm Egger also criticized the work, which went on display at the museum on Saturday, ANSA said.
Kippenberger, who died in 1997 aged 44, was a painter, sculptor and photographer.
Several exhibitions of his work have been held posthumously including a show at the Tate Modern in London in 2006.
AFP (news@thelocal.de)