The Louvre rejects giant sculpture that looks like 2 buildings having, um, well you know
A sculpture was interpreted as too sexually explicit for the Louvre.
The Fiac international art fair in Paris later this month was set to include the “Domestikator” sculpture in the Louvre's Tuileries Gardens. The large-scale installation by the art collective Atelier Van Lieshout happens to look like a building caught in the middle of the act.
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Its sexual nature pushed the museum to pull the piece from the art fair, according to the New York Times.
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Many found the museum's low tolerance for risqué art hypocritical given how much nudity has been featured at the fair and museum before.
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The collective's founder, Joep van Lieshout, told the NYT that, "The piece itself, it’s not really very explicit ... It’s a very abstracted shape. There are no genitals. It’s pretty innocent.”
But not innocent enough.
The museum was worried about the 40-foot tall sculpture being located near a children's playground.
Atelier van Lieshout currently has a separate exhibition in Paris called "Furnification." It features several lamps in similar positions as the house sculpture.
We're sensing a theme here.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
