Let the Artists Educate

 

Its said art should unsettle, it should jolt us awake, shake us out of our complacency. However, some artists like Mideo Cruz is taking his art quite literally and a bit too seriously. In his exhibit “Kulo”  at CCP, featured what he called “Poleteismo” “Polytheism,” “is about the worship of relics and how idolatry evolves through history and modern culture.” It included Catholic relics with pop culture and phallic objects. The said art exhibit is now closed due to the death threats being received by the CCP officers about the said artwork.

The artwork itself enraged the bishops, no surprise there. They say these works are obscene, perverse and vindictive of satanic possession. And of course, our congressmen are not to be outdone, they want the CCP investigated. The last thing they should do is to upset the general public since the CCP is paid for by the taxpayers money who are generally Christians.

The masses enraged by this wanted no more of his art wants him excommunicated or send him to a permanent exile.

I say this issue has gone too far. This is puny compared to the real issues of the day like the corruption of some of our bishops and congressmen. Why waste our time discussing a bit of art when those real thieves walk away with the taxpayers money unscathed?  I say a plot set the real issue aside.

Besides the matter of Cruz’s art is debatable. It really depends on one’s point of view. Maybe his intention isn’t really to offend the religious but merely to open their eyes to what had blinded them from the truth. But who is the more offensive the artist who disfigures the name of God figuratively speaking or those who spat him in the face through petty robbery thereby defiling his name literally?

It would seem that like the Pharisees or the Damasos out there, we are making up for a lifetime of breaking the ten commandments. As if showing off vehemence toward one particular sin would allow us to enter the heavenly gates and be greeted with arms wide open.

 

 

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