Germany: Voodoo Exhibition in Church
The Haitian "artist group" Atis Rezistans is currently presenting sculptures in St Kunigundis Church in Kassel, Fulda diocese, Germany.
Due to damage to the ceiling vault, the church has been closed for services since 2019 "for safety reasons", but blasphemous exhibitions seem to be safe.
According to Rp-Online.de (17 August), the Haitians explained that traditions of the "voodoo religion" have been incorporated into their sculptures, which are made of metal, scrap metal, human skulls (!) and bones.
According to local media, visitors react with "astonishment and sometimes horror". One man shouted "Do you like the devil?" at one of the "artists" at the opening and asked what was being done with the Kunigundis Church.
In contrast, decadent Fulda Diocese warmly welcomed the exhibition in front of the DPA agency. The pictorial treatment of death had - allegedly - direct parallels with the Baroque tradition [or rather with the slow suicide of the Council Church].
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Due to damage to the ceiling vault, the church has been closed for services since 2019 "for safety reasons", but blasphemous exhibitions seem to be safe.
According to Rp-Online.de (17 August), the Haitians explained that traditions of the "voodoo religion" have been incorporated into their sculptures, which are made of metal, scrap metal, human skulls (!) and bones.
According to local media, visitors react with "astonishment and sometimes horror". One man shouted "Do you like the devil?" at one of the "artists" at the opening and asked what was being done with the Kunigundis Church.
In contrast, decadent Fulda Diocese warmly welcomed the exhibition in front of the DPA agency. The pictorial treatment of death had - allegedly - direct parallels with the Baroque tradition [or rather with the slow suicide of the Council Church].
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