Word: paradiso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borrowed from a Lombard farm by an Italian artist named Antonio Paradiso, the beast, a massive bull named Pinco, stood ruminating in a corral in front of the Italian pavilion. The other half of Paradiso's artwork was a mucca finta, a fake cow, a four-wheeled chassis draped in a cowskin. It was to be wheeled into the pen, the deceived bull would mount it, and the results-as the Biennale catalogue noted, with the usual clarity of Italian art criticism-would touch "the central core of the present evolutionary-involutionary crisis." Finding the proposed event "degrading" (degrading...
...massed cameras clicked and whirred, and the crowd of connoisseurs looked breathlessly on, the bull glared at his mechanical bride and abruptly scrambled up on her. Then, with the weary expression of Porn Star Harry Reems working off his debts, Pinco ejaculated on the ground. So ended Paradiso's work of art, which was, in its way, emblematic of the Biennale: a captive beast (Natura) struggling to inseminate a fictive one (Arte) under the gaze of an impervious public...