Friday, November 13, 2009

Japanese artist shocks French

Controversial Japanese artist Nakuyama Hitomito has landed himself in hot water again concerning a piece of art he was commissioned to make for the French. Hitomito, 22, who shot to fame in 2003 with his painting "the naked paper clip", was one of five international artists commissioned to make art for a new exhibit in Paris this week. Since his arrival in France last month, Hitomito has openly expressed dissatisfaction with what he calls the "bourgeois racists" of the Parisian art scene, and guests and officials attending the exhibition were left suitably stunned as the Japanese artist revealed a picture of a smoking frog riding a bicycle with cheese wheels.
Emilie St hillare, president of the French art council, refused to comment on the matter

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