Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

breitbart ^ | Aug 11 03:26 PM US/Eastern

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A giant inflatable dog turd 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 S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.

The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, 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.

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

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At least San José's doesn't fly...

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SVP

[Jeff Chandler]

Crap.

[reagan_fanatic]

Holy sh*t.

[MeanWestTexan]

Complex S is complete s. What a joke.

[coconutt2000]

It is amazing what wannabe socialites will classify as art just so they can appear to progressively minded and hip.

[OESY]

Did it hit a fan?

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[cripplecreek]

Well looks like we’re in for a sh*tstorm.

[Constitution Day]

I knew a lot of modern art was crap, but this is ridiculous.

[gorush]

Excrement occurs.

[martin_fierro]

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[Moonman62]

I’m glad we dumped this con artist on Switzerland.

[ElkGroveDan]

the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

The "piece." Priceless.

[huldah1776]

Should have called the painting “self-portrait”.

[frithguild]

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.

Somebody's in deep ...

[jazusamo]

Hey McCarthy, s happens.

[huldah1776]

sorry, not a painting, piece of the artists brains?

[Jonah Hex]

Must have been an Airedale...

[tet68]

Deflateable dog poop, what won’t they think of next?

[xc1427]

I pray to God this shit lands in a punchbowl.

[MHGinTN]

Balloon happens don’tchaknow.

[Argus]

A few years back some Italian artiste put his own feces in cans and sold them as artworks, for thousands per can. Of course the natural process of decomposition inside the cans created gases that expanded and inevitably, eventually the cans exploded. The connoisseurs who had the art cans on display got what was coming to them, methinks.

[DoughtyOne]

I wonder whose tax dollars paid for this piece of s., and the trip over there.

[steve-b]

the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display

Aw, come on; how could the art museum ever be complete without its giant inflatable dog turd?

[Joe 6-pack]

"The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)"

I would've preferred, "The Audacity of Poop".

[pennboricua]

no just a big wall

[jagusafr]

Oh, where to begin...

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LOOK! Up in the sky!

It’s a turd!

It’s a plane!

It’s...

[vietvet67]

No corn?

[hometoroost]

Inflable dog s&$# happens

[hometoroost]

Sorry, inflatable dog s$%# happens

[cripplecreek]

I would have called it “After Alpo”

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When the museum employees saw the exhibit flying away, they were overheard saying, “Oh, $#1*t!”

[stevio]

I’ll give him credit for working his nose hairs into his beard. That, IMHO takes talent.

[LibWhacker]

A flying dog turd that crushes houses... Genius! Right up there with Michelangelo.

[hometoroost]

"the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display"

Once that stuff is gone there's no putting it back

[jazusamo]

LOL! Old Mac looks like he fried his brain on Acid many years ago.

[rfp1234]

At least San José's doesn't fly...

[OESY]

In a related development, a new very fast-food franchise began operations today.

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[auntyfemenist]

Well, if they had to critique really good art, they would have to use a lot of big words and wouldn’t really know what to say anyway.

This sort of thing might be my biggest pet peeve. Who is this joke of an artist?

[Rio]

Wow. That’s worse than the flaming paper bag thing.

[cripplecreek]

Turd rate art by a turd rate artist.

[Malsua]

The museum will only display it again after he gives it a good polish.

[fleagle]

"A giant inflatable dog turd..."

Just thought that needed to be repeated.

[MortMan]

That’s a pretty good picture of the infamous “work of art”. ;-P

[auntyfemenist]

Funny, they don’t look that big in the back of the comic book.

[saganite]

Der Sheisse hit the ventilator!

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Here’s a ß you can borrow...

[JoeSixPack1]

WHEN BIO-HAZARD ART ATTACKS!

CHARMIN!

Squeezably soft. :-)

[doodad]

Complex indeed. I hope they have complex comprehensive coverage.