on this picture it is at the doorstep of Boijmans van Beuningenmuseum, recently they finally moved it to the eendrachtsplein (a square).
Local residents have objected to this statue for years.
I don’t think it was meant to resemble a butt-plug or dildo, it was meant to resemble a christmastree-shape-like-kind-of. Only sick perverted minds proclaimed it to resemble a dildo/butt-plug, the same people who protested against it i presume.
@nyokki Ummmm…yes, the origanal i’m talking about was indeed called just Santa claus and it’s description mentioned him holding a christmastree, not a butt-plug. The picture above was taken in a park in antwerp as part of a manifestation where they happily adopted the name given to the public (not the artist paul mccarthy) of the original sculpture. In Rotterdam where i live he’s called Kabouter Buttplug, a kabouter is a pixie not santa.
Today i took a picture of the original Santa Claus by Paul Mc Carthy some 300 mtrs from where i live and posted it on MCF, awaiting moderation you’ll be ale to see the bronze result.
@...Betsy: do you think that this is a man that would just make it a tree:
“…He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance”
@nyokki, i know of McCarthy’s other work, i even have footage of that performance you’re talking about somewhere. But what the artist initially intended is open for debate, the original description of this work is not, ‘santa claus with christmastree’ Besides that, i’ve made a thorough search for all kinds of butt-plugs and never once found one that resembles the shape this santa is holding, i have come to the conclusion that the name ‘Santa with Butt-plug’ was given to him by the same people that opposed him in several different countries, including my own.
I love this work and am glad it sits on a square which is on the route to my work, so i can cycle by it every day and have a small laugh.
Anyway, it really doesn’t matter to me, i think it’s a christmastree, i’ve seen the size of that thing and thinking it to be a butt-plug is just ridiculous, even an elephant would be hurting plugging that.
The fact that people in L.A., Mexico, Brazil and N.Y.C. have rejected it and it’s now sitting in my city pissing off moralists just feels fine to me, let them think it’s a fucking butt-plug and go nuts over it, hilarious.
@...Betsy: Fail to see the resemblance? Really?
The Dutch wiki article was the 1st one to hint that it might be anything other than a butt plug. I’m fairly certain that even if Santa w/ Tree was the original name for it (by McCarthy), that he was having some fun, realizing (almost) everyone would recognize it as a butt plug.
BUTT… PLUG!!!!
Spark plug?
Big butt plug is big.
Butt-ah
Plug-ah
dude should have given santa more than one color.
all red makes him look like a gnome
The original stands in Rotterdam the netherlands,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kabouter_Buttplug.jpg
on this picture it is at the doorstep of Boijmans van Beuningenmuseum, recently they finally moved it to the eendrachtsplein (a square).
Local residents have objected to this statue for years.
a nice clip was made of the story of kabouter buttplug
nl.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWI8148RzE
and now he’s here,
theocornelissen.sp.nl/weblog/wp-content/images/2008/05/kabouter-1.jpg
That is some perverted and deviant shit (metaphoical and literal), but funny as hell.
I’m gonna make a pic of the original Santa Buttplug tommorrow and submit it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCarthy
Errrm…Riiiiiiiight…
@Dreth: ROFL!!!
seriously, as much as most of the guys who plan public decorations are gay, giving santa a huge dildo is just wrong
I don’t think it was meant to resemble a butt-plug or dildo, it was meant to resemble a christmastree-shape-like-kind-of. Only sick perverted minds proclaimed it to resemble a dildo/butt-plug, the same people who protested against it i presume.
@...Betsy: Ummm…no.
@nyokki Ummmm…yes, the origanal i’m talking about was indeed called just Santa claus and it’s description mentioned him holding a christmastree, not a butt-plug. The picture above was taken in a park in antwerp as part of a manifestation where they happily adopted the name given to the public (not the artist paul mccarthy) of the original sculpture. In Rotterdam where i live he’s called Kabouter Buttplug, a kabouter is a pixie not santa.
Some more info on his recent move to a mayor square.
www.sculptureinternationalrotterdam.nl/new/index.php?lang=en
@...Betsy: Ummm…no. I refuse to believe it’s not a butt-plug. I have to keep my fantasies intact.
lol, let it be your fantasies then.
Today i took a picture of the original Santa Claus by Paul Mc Carthy some 300 mtrs from where i live and posted it on MCF, awaiting moderation you’ll be ale to see the bronze result.
@...Betsy: do you think that this is a man that would just make it a tree:
“…He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance”
@...vincent.ex2: THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about!
@nyokki, i know of McCarthy’s other work, i even have footage of that performance you’re talking about somewhere. But what the artist initially intended is open for debate, the original description of this work is not, ‘santa claus with christmastree’ Besides that, i’ve made a thorough search for all kinds of butt-plugs and never once found one that resembles the shape this santa is holding, i have come to the conclusion that the name ‘Santa with Butt-plug’ was given to him by the same people that opposed him in several different countries, including my own.
I love this work and am glad it sits on a square which is on the route to my work, so i can cycle by it every day and have a small laugh.
@...Betsy: Took me 10 seconds:
images.sextoysex.com/DJ/DJ0/0247-02-.JPG
www.playsureshop.com/catalog/product_reviews.php?cPath=21&products_id=31&language=de
Every article I come across,, states that it is in fact a butt plug.
www.buzzfeed.com/lindseyweber/santa-with-butt-plug-ru
www.artinfo.com/news/story/29546/santas-little-helper/
contemporaryartetc.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/fact-of-the-day-71-christmas-special/
You may find the resemblance i appearantly fail to do so.
however,…
horsesthink.com/?p=288
www.artloversnewyork.com/zine/the-bomb/2007/11/16/paul-mccarthychocolate-santamaccarone/
All your articles refer to the inflatable santa of 2007 with buttplug en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tierecke_mccarthy.jpg
NOT the original (2001) in bronze that is now in rotterdam
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(beeld) (dutch sorry)
Anyway, it really doesn’t matter to me, i think it’s a christmastree, i’ve seen the size of that thing and thinking it to be a butt-plug is just ridiculous, even an elephant would be hurting plugging that.
The fact that people in L.A., Mexico, Brazil and N.Y.C. have rejected it and it’s now sitting in my city pissing off moralists just feels fine to me, let them think it’s a fucking butt-plug and go nuts over it, hilarious.
by the way, have you seen this?
@...Betsy: Fail to see the resemblance? Really?
The Dutch wiki article was the 1st one to hint that it might be anything other than a butt plug. I’m fairly certain that even if Santa w/ Tree was the original name for it (by McCarthy), that he was having some fun, realizing (almost) everyone would recognize it as a butt plug.