"Art" Excibit takes down "art" using the ashes of holocaust victims after protests.

[musical_soul]

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&ct=12532467

After an international outcry led by the Swedish Jewish community, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and other activists, a Swedish gallery has taken down an exhibit of a painting that used ashes of Holocaust victims. The painting, by Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, contained ashes stolen by him from the Majdanek death camp in Poland.

In an open letter, Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center’s Director for International Relations, told to von Hausswolff that he was “turning art into abomination” and likened the work to the Nazis' use of human skin for lampshades. “Hitler, as an aspirant painter, would have surely applauded,” wrote Samuels. After seeing the letter as well as other protests, Martin Bryder, the gallery owner, closed the exhibit early. Earlier in the week, Bryder had said that he saw “no moral problem or flaw” in showing the piece.

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How can people not realize how disgusting that is?

[COLGATE4]

1. File under "Unfuckingbelievable" nt

[OldDem2012]

2. Background Info - "Swedish Artist Incorporates Ashes Of Holocaust Victims Into Painting"....

Swedish Artist Incorporates Ashes Of Holocaust Victims Into Painting

Link has a small pic of the so-called "artwork".

What the heck was this painter thinking?? Did he not understand the sensitivity of the survivors of the Holocaust??

[cali]

3. wtf? was this piece of shit "artist" prosecuted for stealing the ashes of Holocaust victims?

As for the Gallery owner, a gigantic fuck you.