Posted on 03/29/2006 12:59:42 PM PST by martin_fierro
Spears Sculpture on Display Next Month
Tue Mar 28, 7:23 PM ET
A life-size sculpture of a naked Britney Spears kneeling on a bearskin rug as she gives birth will be on display next month at Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery.
The sculpture is to appear next to a display case filled with anti-abortion materials. It was created by Daniel Edwards, who said he never spoke to the 24-year-old pop star or met her, and fashioned her face and figure from photographs.
"I admire her. This is an idealized figure," Edwards said Tuesday in a phone interview from his home, which is near his studio in Moosup, Conn.
"Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself seductively. Suddenly, she's a mom."
Spears, who is married to her former backup dancer Kevin Federline, gave birth to their son, Sean Preston, last year. He is the couple's first child.
The singer's publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
When some bloggers heard about the exhibit "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" the gallery said it received about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between anti-abortion and abortion rights opinions.
"We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument."
The gallery, located in Brooklyn's artsy Williamsburg neighborhood, said it would hire extra security guards for the free exhibit, which will open April 7 and run for two weeks.
Edwards, whose sculpture of Ted Williams' decapitated head which was frozen in the hope that medical science could one day revive the baseball great stirred up an artistic storm, said the sculpture of Spears was a "new take on pro-life."
"Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth," he said.
When Edwards was asked why he creates art that generates publicity by selecting subjects hyped in the media, he said: "You're bombarded with these stories. And there's a thread that winds back to the art. That's not a bad thing. People are interested in these topics, and it works for art as well."
Asked whether he's anti-abortion, Edwards said, "You nailed me. I'm not saying that I am. I wouldn't march with either pro-life or pro-choice advocates. This is not meant to be political."
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On the Net:
http://www.caplakesting.com
This photograph, released by sculptor Daniel Edwards on Tuesday, March 28, 2006,shows his sculpture of singer Britney Spears giving birth. The life-sized "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," seen at the artists studio in in Moosup, Conn., will be shown at the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery in the Williamsburg section of New York beginning April 7. (AP Photo/Daniel Edwards)
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Moooooooooo
In before it is pulled ;-)
Does it show the baby coming out? ;^)
I wonder if I can get Corbin to make a saddle for one of those...
Yes, according to other articles that have been posted here on this topic, the head is "crowning" in the rear view.
I was wondering the same thing, in just what state is the back half depicting?
Someone post the rear view pic...
he he...
Any resemblance to Brittany Spears is accidental. The face is totally nondescript.
Looks like a position she is familiar with?
It says "K-Fed was Here."
Going to be an expensive cleaning bill on that rug I imagine...
I wonder if Ms. Spears has commented on this....
(In before the yank)--left my mark before the thread gets pulled.
New furniture for the Korova.
LOL m'droogly.
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/archive/2006_03_01_archive.html
This Looks Nothing Like Britney Spears
If you're anywhere near New York this April, you can make a pit stop at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn's Williamsburg gallery district to see this ridiculous "Pro-Life monument to birth" which is supposed to be the likeness of Britney Spears.
Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," believed Pro-Life's first monument to the 'act of giving birth,' is purportedly an idealized depiction of Britney in delivery. Natural aspects of Spears' pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean's head. The monument also acknowledges the pop-diva's pin-up past by showing Spears seductively posed on all fours atop a bearskin rug with back arched, pelvis thrust upward, as she clutches the bear's ears with 'water-retentive' hands."
First of all, Britney chose to avoid the whole going into labor, vaginal birth ordeal by scheduling a Cesarean Section prior to her due date because people told her childbirth hurt, and she didn't want it to hurt. So Sean P.'s birth looked nothing like this. She was strapped to a gurney with a sheet in front of her face, most of her body was numb and she was high on some super fantastic painkillers. Furthermore, Kevin Federline is a shining example of why abortion was invented. Like rat poison and roach motels, it's a necessary evil to avoid overpopulating the Earth with vermin. And if I had to choose between a house full of rats or a house full of K-Feds, I'd go with the rats. Rats and K-Fed both smell like dumpsters and shit all over everything, but rats are smart and have personality. "Personality goes a long way."
Urrrrrgghhh....
This is NOT a post I should have clicked on at 0630.
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