In your opinion, is this art?

[vistaliving]

Chinese artist defends fetus artwork

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — The Chinese artist who grafted a human fetus head onto the body of a bird defended it as art today after a visitor to the museum where it is on display in Switzerland filed a criminal complaint over the piece.

"It's precisely because I respect all life that I did this," said artist Xiao Yu. He said the bird and fetus "died because there was something wrong with them. I thought putting them together like this was a way for them to have another life."

Adrien de Riedmatten, 29, filed a complaint yesterday with the district attorney of Bern, Switzerland, calling for an investigation into the piece, which is on display at the Bern Art Museum.

"I want to know where this baby comes from and if it was killed for this work," de Riedmatten said. "We know about the problems of late-term abortions in China and we have the right to ask ourselves questions."

Swiss law enforcement authorities will investigate the complaint and decide whether to press charges.

Xiao said he bought the human fetus head in 1999 for a few hundred yuan (a few dozen U.S. dollars) from a man who was cleaning out a scientific exhibition hall. The glass bottle it came in had a handwritten sticker identifying it as a female specimen from the 1960s.

According to Xiao, it had no name or cause of death but bore a date, although he has lost the piece of paper and can't remember what it was.

"It was close to my birthdate though, I remember that because I thought it was coincidental," he said as he looked at a computer image of the piece in his Beijing high-rise apartment.

Xiao was born on April 22, 1965.

He said he assumed the fetus was miscarried after about six months, based on the development of its features and the condition of the head. He said it was unlikely to be an aborted fetus, because it predated China's "one child" birth control policy.

China launched the policy in the late 1970s limiting most urban couples to one child in an effort to slow the growth of its population, which officially hit 1.3 billion this year. Rural couples and some in cities are allowed two children.

Human rights group say Chinese officials sometimes force women to have abortions if they already have the maximum number of children.

Photos below.

http://www.universes-in-universe.de/...at1/e-xiao.htm

[UrbanPoet]

The FBI and CIA investigated that and found out it was completely fake.
On the other hand, stories keep on circulating about this that claim they are real.

[CARLiTO_]

The FBI and CIA investigated that and found out it was completely fake.
On the other hand, stories keep on circulating about this that claim they are real.

what was fake?

is the story fake? did he join the head of a fetus and a bird?

[wanted]

Really, really, really abstract art

[UrbanPoet]

what was fake?

is the story fake? did he join the head of a fetus and a bird?

I remember reading on one of those 'urban legend buster' type of sites, and it said it was just dolls attached to duck bodies... they were shaped to look like fetuses.
COMMON think... theres alot of simple things you cant do in China. Im pretty sure they wouldnt allow fetus eating. He woulda had his head chopped off by PLA in seconds if that happened

[Bordello]

It definitely looks like a doll's head.

[ProfessorChaos]

and there are a lot of things you can do in china...like eat dogs and cats and other creatures...but this fetus grafting thing is kind of suspicious....

[Absolute]

I don't think it's art, it's disgusting.

[CodecX81]

ehh.. looks fake.

[xxx]

fake !!!

[jayisthebest88]

Everything is art, u can piss on a peice of paper and let it dry and it would be considered art

[wanted]

Everything is art, u can piss on a peice of paper and let it dry and it would be considered art

BRB.

[Bordello]

Everything is art, u can piss on a peice of paper and let it dry and it would be considered art

And there's a clown willing to pay an arm and a leg for it.

[Suresh]

Everything is art, u can piss on a peice of paper and let it dry and it would be considered art

Similiar to what Metallica used for their "LOAD" and "RELOAD" album cover art.

[kilarney]

Fake!!!! :d

Its Not Art