New Brunswick gallery to exhibit controversial 'Piss Christ' photograph this summer
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Kate Taylor
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Summary
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, will exhibit Andres Serrano's controversial 1987 photograph "Piss Christ (Immersions)" — a large photograph of a crucifix suspended in the artist's urine. The work sparked a major censorship scandal in the late 1980s after being included in a touring art-prize exhibition. The gallery will display a vandalized version of the piece in its Dali chapel from Thursday to Nov. 29.
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The gallery announced Tuesday that it will be showing Piss Christ (Immersions), a large photograph by the American artist Andres Serrano that shows a crucifix suspended in an amber fluid that the artist identified as his own urine.
The 1987 work became the centre of a censorship scandal after it was included in an art-prize exhibition that toured to Richmond, Va., in 1989.
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