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Article: Art and religion controversy in Buenos Aires.(Front Page)
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- Art in America
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- March 1, 2005
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When it opened last November at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Leon Ferrari's first retrospective was supposed to be the long-overdue opportunity for Argentineans to acknowledge one of the country's most influential artists. But as has often been the case throughout his career (he is now in his 80s), Ferrari has again become a flashpoint for political controversy and violence.
Even before the exhibition opened, conservative Catholic groups and leaders of the clergy demanded its cancellation and barraged the center and government officials with angry e-mails. Unquestionably, several of the 400 works were frankly inflammatory, including the series of ...