The Louvre rejects giant sculpture that looks like 2 buildings having, um, well you know
A sculpture was interpreted as too sexually explicit for the Louvre.
The Fiac international art fair in Paris later this month was set to include the “Domestikator” sculpture in the Louvre's Tuileries Gardens. The large-scale installation by the art collective Atelier Van Lieshout happens to look like a building caught in the middle of the act.
OH MON DIEU il l'ont fais LE DOMESTIKATOR avec @ShealdZ et @ChatAShealdz pic.twitter.com/KALL6n58Fb
— le rein de sir gibsy (@lereindesirgibs) October 3, 2017
Its sexual nature pushed the museum to pull the piece from the art fair, according to the New York Times.
Many found the museum's low tolerance for risqué art hypocritical given how much nudity has been featured at the fair and museum before.
There are a million nudes in the Louvre but this is where they draw the line I guess https://t.co/wZLYrTqVrA pic.twitter.com/7ik6s81UcJ
— Shane (@shaneferro) October 3, 2017
On avait eu droit au "Plug anal", au "vagin de la reine"... On vient d'échapper de justesse au "Domestikator".
➡ https://t.co/AwTTSSu9z4 pic.twitter.com/Z75ILSHHw8— 《On》 (@On_lacherien) September 30, 2017
The collective's founder, Joep van Lieshout, told the NYT that, "The piece itself, it’s not really very explicit ... It’s a very abstracted shape. There are no genitals. It’s pretty innocent.”
But not innocent enough.
The museum was worried about the 40-foot tall sculpture being located near a children's playground.
Atelier van Lieshout currently has a separate exhibition in Paris called "Furnification." It features several lamps in similar positions as the house sculpture.
We're sensing a theme here.
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