Ferrari sculptures
- Artist/Author/Producer: Leon Ferrari
- Confronting Bodies: Jorge Romero Brest - Dir. Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Di Tella
- Dates of action: 1965
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Description of the Art Work
- La Civilizaciõn Occidental y Cristiana (Western and Christian
Civilization) - 1965, (122 X 198 X 60 cm) A Christ figure is cruxified to a
fighter jet. His arms span the wings as he grasps a missile on either side.
He also presented three other works criticizing the Vietnam War.
- Description of incident
- During a competition held annually by the Centro de Artes Visuales del
Instituto Di Tella, its director Jorge Romero Brest denied the exhibition of
Ferrari's "La Civilizaciõn...". He was however permitted to exhibit
three other works criticizing the Vietnam war. In a Sept. 9, 1965 article in La
Prensa, the conservative critic E. Ramallo attacked Ferrari's work resulting
in the remaining work censorship.
- Results of incident
- As a result, in 1967, Ferrari and other artists involved in the incident at
the Instituto Di Tella organized an exhibition at Galeria Vignes. Immediately
following the opening, the gallery owner closed the exhibition because the
artist René Cuellar exhibited a picture of Che Guevarra.
Source:Leon Ferrari