Sculpture was once put on public display to honor God(s), Kings, heroes-real and mythical or the great aspirations of mankind.
In recent history we have been putting things on display like what this article depicts.
What I see depicted in this “art” is the most vile of human nature and that is what I think the article really brings to light. Today’s society no longer aspires to greatness but to lowest common instincts of our animal nature.
I think recent history backs me up on this.
There used to be a tradition of sculpting gargoyles for churches- you can see them all over Europe and on our national cathedral as well, and this statue would fit in well with most of them.
It’s not my cup of tea though, and neither are gargoyles, but there is a long tradition of grotesque sculpture, it is not something new to our times.
Seems to me the artist put an awful lot of time, effort and bronze into saying that his mother was a batwinged bitch.