Artist Cosimo Cavallaro decided this year Easter would be different. He wanted to bring the joy of Easter candy closer to the true meaning for the season while being controversial. Well done, Cosimo, you have managed to pull it off.
Cosimo, the Canadian-born artist known for using food ingredients in his art, decided that it would be a good idea to create a life sized and anatomically correct Jesus sculpture out of chocolate. The sculpture depicts Christ in the form he would have been in when he was hanging on the cross.
Naturally, like any self-respecting artist, needed to kick it up a couple of notches for the controversy aspect. So he made the mold completely bald and clean shaven. Nope, that wasn’t enough. People would just say that he didn’t understand the cultural heritage of the Jewish people.
But what else could he do to create the stir around his seemingly retarded idea that would launch him as a respectable artist instead of deluded moron? Naked. The chocolate Christ had to be naked and maintain his anatomically correct figure. That right. There is a chocolate ho-ha.
Okay now that is controversial but Cosimo needed best plateform to launch his newly created masterpiece. So as any Christian hating artist would he planned to display “My Sweet Lord”, the pieces name, in a hotel in New York for the week before Easter.
Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever". "The fact that they chose Holy Week shows this is calculated, and the timing is deliberate," Mr Donohue said. Naturally the responses poured in to the hotel in the form of angry emails and telephone calls. In the current climate of America it is important to be sensitive of all religious beliefs. Why not Christian beliefs?
Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director, said, "We're obviously surprised by the overwhelming response and offence people have taken." "We are certainly in the process of trying to figure out what we're going to do next." Mr Semler said the timing of the exhibition was coincidental and suggest that he had no idea a national holiday was going to take place that week.
Shortly after intial disgust was mentioned to the hotel, in order to be respectful, the display was canceled. The gallery's creative director, Matt Semler, resigned in protest at the cancellation. No one really noticed though because the national holiday will still take place.
Cosimo stated that other countries have already volunteered to host his art display and many people have offered him money to help with the eventual shows costs.
Currently Cosimo has the chocolate Christ in a freezer truck in an undisclosed location fearing that offended people and women recently out of a bad relationship would turn to this Christ to easy their pain.
Cosimo, the Canadian-born artist known for using food ingredients in his art, decided that it would be a good idea to create a life sized and anatomically correct Jesus sculpture out of chocolate. The sculpture depicts Christ in the form he would have been in when he was hanging on the cross.
Naturally, like any self-respecting artist, needed to kick it up a couple of notches for the controversy aspect. So he made the mold completely bald and clean shaven. Nope, that wasn’t enough. People would just say that he didn’t understand the cultural heritage of the Jewish people.
But what else could he do to create the stir around his seemingly retarded idea that would launch him as a respectable artist instead of deluded moron? Naked. The chocolate Christ had to be naked and maintain his anatomically correct figure. That right. There is a chocolate ho-ha.
Okay now that is controversial but Cosimo needed best plateform to launch his newly created masterpiece. So as any Christian hating artist would he planned to display “My Sweet Lord”, the pieces name, in a hotel in New York for the week before Easter.
Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever". "The fact that they chose Holy Week shows this is calculated, and the timing is deliberate," Mr Donohue said. Naturally the responses poured in to the hotel in the form of angry emails and telephone calls. In the current climate of America it is important to be sensitive of all religious beliefs. Why not Christian beliefs?
Matt Semler, the gallery's creative director, said, "We're obviously surprised by the overwhelming response and offence people have taken." "We are certainly in the process of trying to figure out what we're going to do next." Mr Semler said the timing of the exhibition was coincidental and suggest that he had no idea a national holiday was going to take place that week.
Shortly after intial disgust was mentioned to the hotel, in order to be respectful, the display was canceled. The gallery's creative director, Matt Semler, resigned in protest at the cancellation. No one really noticed though because the national holiday will still take place.
Cosimo stated that other countries have already volunteered to host his art display and many people have offered him money to help with the eventual shows costs.
Currently Cosimo has the chocolate Christ in a freezer truck in an undisclosed location fearing that offended people and women recently out of a bad relationship would turn to this Christ to easy their pain.
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When I hear things like this (people who make such a public mockery of Christ) this scene plays out in my head of when this guy dies and has to sit before the judgment seat of Christ. *shudder*