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08-19-2008, 06:07 AM
House-sized inflatable dog poo causes chaos at museum
A giant inflatable dog poo by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house.
The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, museum director Juri Steiner said.
The inflatable poo broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said.
The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Mr Steiner said Mr McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if Complex Shit would be put back on display.
House-sized dog poo causes chaos at museum - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332079.htm)
"The inflatable poo broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said."
That said quote is absolutely terrifying AND has left me giggling uncontrolably.
Unfortunately there are no photos of the inflatable poo in mid air but here's a pic of it anyway:
A giant inflatable dog poo by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house.
The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, museum director Juri Steiner said.
The inflatable poo broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said.
The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Mr Steiner said Mr McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if Complex Shit would be put back on display.
House-sized dog poo causes chaos at museum - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2332079.htm)
"The inflatable poo broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Mr Steiner said."
That said quote is absolutely terrifying AND has left me giggling uncontrolably.
Unfortunately there are no photos of the inflatable poo in mid air but here's a pic of it anyway: