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'''Location:''' Bordeaux, France | '''Location:''' Bordeaux, France | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' The issue surrounding the art exhibit focuses mainly on two artists: Elke Krystufek's installation The Tunnel, which shows the artist masturbating, and drawings by Ugo Rondinone. The Krystufek painting pictured here is not the | '''Description of Artwork:''' The issue surrounding the art exhibit focuses mainly on two artists: Elke Krystufek's installation The Tunnel, which shows the artist masturbating, and drawings by Ugo Rondinone. The Krystufek painting pictured here is not the work in question, but shows her raw, realistic style. <P> | ||
[[File:Elke.jpg|left]] | [[File:Elke.jpg|left]] | ||
'''The Incident:''' The scandal continues to grow around ''Présumés Innocents—L'Art Contemporain et l'Enfance (Presumed Innocent--Contemporary Art and Childhood)''. The exhibition, which took place at CAPC Bordeaux from June to October 2000, gave rise to an official judicial inquiry after local children's organization La Mouette lodged a complaint, claiming that the show contained child pornography. Henri-Claude Cousseau, director of the CAPC Bordeaux in 2000 and now director of Paris's École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, was summoned to a judicial inquiry in Bordeaux to answer questions about his role in the exhibition. In addition, the show's cocurators, Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stéphanie Moisdon, were brought before the case's judge, Jean-Louis Croizier. But there appears to be a striking lack of evidence. La Mouette based their complaint on the catalogue, which contains images of artworks that were not in the exhibition while excluding other works that were shown. While La Mouette cited twenty-one artworks, including pieces by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Christian Boltanski, Elke Krystufek, Ugo Rondinone, Annette Messager, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and Carsten Höller, the issue surrounding the art exhibit focuses mainly on two artists: Elke Krystufek's installation ''The Tunnel'', which shows the artist masturbating, and drawings by Ugo Rondinone. <P> | '''The Incident:''' The scandal continues to grow around ''Présumés Innocents—L'Art Contemporain et l'Enfance (Presumed Innocent--Contemporary Art and Childhood)''. The exhibition, which took place at CAPC Bordeaux from June to October 2000, gave rise to an official judicial inquiry after local children's organization La Mouette lodged a complaint, claiming that the show contained child pornography. Henri-Claude Cousseau, director of the CAPC Bordeaux in 2000 and now director of Paris's École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, was summoned to a judicial inquiry in Bordeaux to answer questions about his role in the exhibition. In addition, the show's cocurators, Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stéphanie Moisdon, were brought before the case's judge, Jean-Louis Croizier. But there appears to be a striking lack of evidence. La Mouette based their complaint on the catalogue, which contains images of artworks that were not in the exhibition while excluding other works that were shown. While La Mouette cited twenty-one artworks, including pieces by the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Christian Boltanski, Elke Krystufek, Ugo Rondinone, Annette Messager, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, and Carsten Höller, the issue surrounding the art exhibit focuses mainly on two artists: Elke Krystufek's installation ''The Tunnel'', which shows the artist masturbating, and drawings by Ugo Rondinone. <P> | ||