I think the joke is that the horse is one of those trophies that rich people have, and they’re apparently a humane old coot, and they didn’t have to heart to cut off the horse’s head before mounting it. That’s just my idea.
I’ve seen *something* (was it an exhibit, a photo…perhaps it was a Far Side cartoon) that had the head of *some animal* (was it a moose, a bear…perhaps it was a lion) & in the next room the rest of the body was mounted like this.
Or it’s possible I just imagined *seeing it* (I like vodka).
@misa
You didn’t imagine it. It’s been done (literally, not just in Far Side) a number of times, usually with a deer. The head is mounted and hung on one side of a wall, with the backside on the opposing side. I also have seen it done with moose. There is a dentist office here (greater Austin, Texas area) in which a dentist had a taxidermist preserve a deer’s butt and mounted a doorbell where the anus was. Most people who need let in will knock on the door.
Well, first the other hunters tried to tell Pete the truth about the “Deer” he shot, but he just wouldn’t hear it.
Finally, realizing that there was no talking sense into him, one of them kindly explained that you display a prize buck by “cutting off it’s head, and then hanging it on the wall”
@picisunrelated
i wonder what is behind that wall?
This is the strangest art gallery ever.
I wonder what those are in rows on the floor.
I don’t think this new concept for Cabella’s is going to go over very well.
I wonder what’s sticking out of the wall on the other side at about mid-stairs…
not even close
Looks a bit like Koldinghus, anyone got a source on this?
@Clyde
looks like a shark’s tail
soo ~THATS~ what it looks like on the other side..
it’s the biennale of venice. more photos: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/the_2009_venice_biennale.html
It’s a work by Maurizio Cattelan, now at the Venice Biennale.
There’s a horse sticking in your wall…
After years of hiding away from people Mr. Ed kills himself
I didnt know that wall was stable?
I think the joke is that the horse is one of those trophies that rich people have, and they’re apparently a humane old coot, and they didn’t have to heart to cut off the horse’s head before mounting it. That’s just my idea.
The artist saved the head to intimidate people into funding his works of ‘art’
Doing weird things with taxidermy animals isn’t an art. It’s a sickness.
that same horse was at the new museum in nyc last year.
@bryant
It’s a giraffe’s head that’s upside down on the wall on the right.
I have the horse’s head up on my wall.
I’ve seen *something* (was it an exhibit, a photo…perhaps it was a Far Side cartoon) that had the head of *some animal* (was it a moose, a bear…perhaps it was a lion) & in the next room the rest of the body was mounted like this.
Or it’s possible I just imagined *seeing it* (I like vodka).
They built around the horse.
@misa
You didn’t imagine it. It’s been done (literally, not just in Far Side) a number of times, usually with a deer. The head is mounted and hung on one side of a wall, with the backside on the opposing side. I also have seen it done with moose. There is a dentist office here (greater Austin, Texas area) in which a dentist had a taxidermist preserve a deer’s butt and mounted a doorbell where the anus was. Most people who need let in will knock on the door.
“Portrait of the Artist as a Horse’s Ass”
Is that what they mean by “hung like a horse”? Wow I’ve been thinking something waaayyy different!
Other end of basement horse??
glory hole, right?
Well, first the other hunters tried to tell Pete the truth about the “Deer” he shot, but he just wouldn’t hear it.
Finally, realizing that there was no talking sense into him, one of them kindly explained that you display a prize buck by “cutting off it’s head, and then hanging it on the wall”
Again, Pete simply just did not understand.
@gi
That stuff is crazy. o.O
Hung like a horse…
That’s Venice, the art biennal…
@misa
It was a Superbowl Commercial, it was a moose, and there was a guy at his desk under the backside.
“You shoulda thought about that before you refused Johnny Fontane that exhibit space.”
This picture answers the question of “I see the deer head at your wall, but where is the rest of the deer?”
that looks exactly like the inside of the holocaust museum.
sigh – it’s ironic. I think it’s pretty cool as art works go…