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Thursday, January 18, 2007

There seems to be no end to what people consider art. The artist featured below seems to savor the attention his controversial art brings. Not mentioned in the article is if the visitors actually ate his fat. He apparently eludes arrest because he claims they are eating art- therefore it is not cannibalism.

What kind of people buy this kind of art? The National Endowment for the Arts financially supports many artists like this, but don't these artists need to put food on the table? (Pardon the pun) Did he actually sell his meatballs for $4,000? What statement is this artist trying to make? Is he implying that everything is art- including fat?

Artist Serves Friends Meatballs Cooked in His Own Liposuctioned Body Fat

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

SANTIAGO, Chile — "Bon appetit," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.

"Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated last Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery.

On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.

"The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation.

"You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.

Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.

A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.

In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.

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