200ft Inflatable Turd Crashes in Switzerland, No Injuries
August 13th, 2008 @ 8:24 am by zymetricAs first reported by the guardian, a 200ft inflatable dog turd went afloat and caused quite a ruckus at the Swiss museum, in Berne on July, 31st.
According to officials, the ‘art installation’, was intact with a “self deflate” system in case of bad weather, but the system seems to have “overflowed” if you will, allowing the giant turd to be swept up and carried some 200 meters before bringing down a power line & subsequently crashing into a children’s home. Can you imagine!? (We swear we aren’t making this story up).
This is not the first time Paul McCarthy has caused controversy or used poop in his work. Pictured above is a sculpture from 1982 entitled appropriately, “Fake Shit”, and is currently on display at the Laguna Beach, CA Art Museum until October). And this isn’t the first time we have seen ‘poop art’ raise eyebrows.
We haven’t been able to find any good pictures of the 200ft inflatable turd. A small picture of the log in question, can be found on the museum homepage.
