as per artnet : A sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim proposed for the Stanford University campus in California has proved itself too controversial for Stanford president John Hennessy, who cancelled the commission after complaints from the school’s dean for religious life. The 25-foot-tall sculpture, called Device to Root Out Evil, is a latticework church that has been turned upside-down and stuck into the ground by its steeple; a version of the work was presented at the 1997 Venice Biennale. A Stanford alumnus, Oppenheim says the cancelled commission has cost him "$100,000 easy." The work "really did root out evil in a strange, circuitous way," Oppenheim told the "Stanford Daily." The president and others have conservative views and are afraid of a work of art, and now we know about it."
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as per artnet : A sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim proposed for the Stanford University campus in California has proved itself too controversial for Stanford president John Hennessy, who cancelled the commission after complaints from the school’s dean for religious life. The 25-foot-tall sculpture, called Device to Root Out Evil, is a latticework church that has been turned upside-down and stuck into the ground by its steeple; a version of the work was presented at the 1997 Venice Biennale. A Stanford alumnus, Oppenheim says the cancelled commission has cost him "$100,000 easy." The work "really did root out evil in a strange, circuitous way," Oppenheim told the "Stanford Daily." The president and others have conservative views and are afraid of a work of art, and now we know about it."
- bill 10-08-2004 12:07 am