A photograph of a plastic Crucifix in a glass of the artists’ urine; according to Serrano it is a statement on the misuse of religion, the billion dollar Christ – for – profit industry and a condemnation of those who abuse the teachings of Chris for their own ignoble ends. Part of Serrano’s series showing religious objects submerged in various fluids (blood, milk, etc)
Controversy has followed the work since it’s creation in 1987, but reached an unprecedented peak on Palm Sunday when it was attacked with hammers and slashed after an "anti-blasphemy" campaign by French Catholic fundamentalists whilst on display in the southern city of Avignon in France.
I don’t find the picture offensive, if anything rather imaginative, my initial concern after originally viewing it and then discovering it was the artists own urine (not Irn-Bru or Tizer as it appears) was that Serrano needed further medical investigation- so lurid, luminous and orange is the fluid (a number of samples left to ferment, not one fresh MSU).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Serrano
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