mental orgasm

Marco Evaristti, a Chilean-Danish avant garde artist, decided it was time to give the city of Aalborg a gift. Last Thursday he took his gift to one of Aalborg’s town squares, one with a fountain and opened it up. Three women came out from under the wrapping, disrobed completely, climbed up on the fountain and began to read from the works of Dostoevsky, Camus and Kakfa. As they were reading aloud they also tossed red paint into the fountain. This lasted until a passerby called the police on his cell phone. The policed arrived twenty-five minutes later. The ladies were told to put their clothes back on, were warned for indecent exposure and the show was over.

When Marco was later quizzed by a national tabloid newspaper what on earth he was up to this time


(he had previously painted icebergs)

(and made a constellaion of six Moulinex blenders each with a goldfish in them)

he answered that the gift was meant to give people an intellectual orgasm. He could not understand people’s reaction to his work of art. “Danes can watch cold and braindead pornography every night on television. Why should something as intellectual as this upset them?”

When reporting the story Ekstra Bladet from Copenhagen chided the residents of Denmark’s third largest city by titling the article, “Too naughty for Aalborg residents.”

Don’t feel bad folks. This would not have lasted ten minutes in 56572. Chief Fox would have had several volunteers from his staff standing in line to apprehend these ladies. The penalty would have been more than a warning.

Marco has a show until the end of this month at Galerie Wolfsen in Aalborg.