Vive le vindication
01 November 2016 - 10:25
In 2014 South African artist Steven Cohen was arrested in Paris and found guilty of sexual exhibitionism for a performance art piece in which he tied a rooster to his penis and paraded around the Eiffel Tower. Now the artist feels he has been vindicated. ''Le Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain -the municipal art collection of Paris - acquired my COQ/COCK 2013 - for their permanent collection."So, the work for which I was found guilty of sexual exhibitionism has become part of the French national collection. First criminalised, then legitimised... and they didn't even wait for me to die first," the artist wrote on Facebook...
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