Posted on 04/25/2006 9:27:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Paris stampeded by colourful cows in the name of art
Mon Apr 24, 12:57 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - To the long list of sights tourists can see in Paris will be added 110 surprising ones from this week, on a temporary basis: cows in all manner of poses and colours, bringing a Pop Art stampede to the City of Light.
The herd of fibreglass bovines will be spread through the centre of the capital from Thursday, including along some famous landmarks, such as the Champs-Elysees, the Garnier Opera and in the chic Saint-Germain district.
Among them is a sculpture of a cow with a helmet cycling along with a milk-cart, a blue cow lying down with a baby angel nestled on its back, and a cow draped in Christian Lacroix chintz at the underground entry to the Louvre.
The unusual display, which runs to June 16, is part of an itinerant exhibition begun in Switzerland 1998 which has already done the rounds in Chicago, New York, Brussels, London, Barcelona and Tokyo.
Different artists have been charged with dressing each cow-sculpture in the name of charity: funds raised from a June 30 auction of the hollow animals will go to the UN's World Food Programme and the Africa Alive organisation.
Authorities have taken care to protect the cows from vandals, anchoring each to a 150-kilo base and varnishing them with an anti-graffiti veneer.
A fibre-glass cow called "Moulin Rouge, Homage to the world's biggest cabaret" designed by artist Marika de Moro Giafferi. The cow is one of 110 bovines in all manner of poses and colours, that will be bringing a Pop Art stampede to Paris.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)
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Oh.
I saw "Paris" and "cows" in the headline, and thought this was an article about Paris Hilton.
That's hot.
But are they flameproof.
Thanks for the pig, I mean ping.
"A beautiful woman lacking modesty is like a fine gold ring in the snout of a pig."
-- Proverbs
Nice udders.
Been there done that....Toronto did this with fibreglass moose some years ago and I don't think they were even the first . I believe they got the idea from some other city previous to them.
If one of them was clamped and titled "Moohammad the Steer" it could start a real stampede.
I wish someone had put socks on each leg of a fiberglass bovine and stuffed each sock with documents so they could have one named Samooel Burger.
No way in heck is Paris Hilton sexy!!!
Her udders are showing.
Some of those are very clever
Los Angeles had (what else) angels, and Houston also had the cow parade.
Those are awesome :-)
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