A sculpture was interpreted as too sexually explicit for the Louvre. 。
The Fiac international art fair in Paris later this month was set to include the “Domestikator” sculpture in the Louvre's Tuileries Gardens. The large-scale installation by the art collective Atelier Van Lieshout happens to look like a building caught in the middle of the act. 。
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Tweet may have been deleted 。 Its sexual nature pushed the museum to pull the piece from the art fair, according to the 。New York Times。
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Tweet may have been deleted 。 The collective's founder, Joep van Lieshout, told the 。NYT。
that, "The piece itself, it’s not really very explicit ... It’s a very abstracted shape. There are no genitals. It’s pretty innocent.”
But not innocent enough. 。
The museum was worried about the 40-foot tall sculpture being located near a children's playground. 。
Atelier van Lieshout currently has a separate exhibition in Paris called "Furnification." It features several lamps in similar positions as the house sculpture.。
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