Aping art? Gorilla crucifixion graces church
News.Ninemsn.com.au / AFP
October 16, 2009
An artist has defended his installation of a lifesize gorilla on a crucifix in a former London church, saying it is designed to highlight a threatened African species.
The artwork by Paul Fryer is scarily lifelike, created using the waxwork techniques of the world-famous Madame Tussauds museum and finished off with human hair.
It is intended to highlight the plight of the endangered Western Lowland Gorillas – Fryer said that despite the setting, the aim is to provoke debate, not to cause offence. Read the rest of this story here.