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OK, this may be the greatest photo I've ever seen.
When you think of the French, you usually imagine a people who are particularly open-minded when it comes to art (and who worship Jerry Lewis, but that's of no relevance here). Nevertheless, a story reported last night by the AFP would seem to contradict that positive stereotype.
Plain-clothes French officers stormed the FIAC International Art Fair in Paris' Grand Palais last Friday to remove several photos by Russian photographer Oleg Kulik which were part of a contemportary art show. The charge, initially leveled by customs officials, is that they depict zoophilia--which, for those naive to the intricacies of sexual deviancy, is human/animal sex.
Many of the 30 photos in question--which, for the record, are about ten years old--depict a naked Kulik frolicing with various beasties in what can be argued to be sexually suggestive positions. The pix have since been returned to the FIAC, but they've been ordered not to re-display them, mainly due to the fact that the exhibit is in a public space accessible to minors.
"These images have an unquestionable artistic status since they have been shown, bought, exhibited and edited since the 1990s," FIAC head Martin Bethenod told AFP.
The artistic goal of the works is not at all to depict bestiality, says Bethenod, but rather to explore the boundary between what is human and what is animal. And while some may object to the very sight of man-ass, for the most part the photos in question do not get any more suggestive than the hilarious example to the right, which is more Monty Python than Robert Mapplethorpe, if you ask me.
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