Artist Depicts Assassination Of Bush, The Queen In New Brazil Exhibition
by Curtis M. Wong
The Huffington Post
September 27, 2010
The Sao Paulo Art Biennial may be renowned for celebrating the best of Brazil’s avant garde, but international critics say one of this year’s featured exhibits — a series of charcoal sketches depicting the imagined assassinations of former U.S. President George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II, among other world leaders — has gone too far.
One sketch in the controversial series, titled “Enemies,” depicts Bush kneeling on the ground while artist Gil Vicente presses a pistol to the former president’s temple. In other sketches, the Queen is apparently unaware of the artist pointing a gun directly at her back, while Pope Benedict XVI faces Vicente directly, his arms outstretched in a quizzical shrug. Other world leaders shown in Vicente’s 9-sketch series include former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, according to The Telegraph. [See below for more photos] Continue reading “The Art of Assassination”