{"id":7930,"date":"2016-09-23T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhugocollection.com\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2019-07-20T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:36:28","slug":"maverick-artist-victor-hugo-mixes-sperm-with-paint-to-combat-dafen-china-artist-mill-forgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhugocollection.com\/maverick-artist-victor-hugo-mixes-sperm-with-paint-to-combat-dafen-china-artist-mill-forgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR HUGO MIXES SPERM WITH PAINT TO COMBAT\u00a0DAFEN CHINA\u00a0ARTIST MILL FORGERIES.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
In A Global Market Saturated With Counterfeit Paintings, Produced By Master Fabricators, Semen Serves To Authenticate Victor-Hugo Collection DNA Series of Artwork For Savvy Fine Art Collectors.<\/p>\n
Dafen, China is home to 5,000 artists who produce dozens of replicas weekly, collectively churning out more than half of the oil paintings produced in the entire world each year.\u00a0 Over 5 million paintings a year are produced legally under Chinese Law where works of art fall out of copyright protection after fifty years.<\/p>\n
\u201cA WOMAN ALWAYS SEES WHAT SHE WANTS TO IN A MAN\u201d (48X48) DNA SERIES, MODERN-ART-GONZO-JOURNALISM, BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II. (5-21-05)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Fine art forgeries can be purchased for forty dollars on every street corner in the village of Dafen, which was founded in the 1990\u2019s by twenty artists, trained at art academies, and a businessman.<\/p>\n \u201cHANDJOB\u201d (36X36) DNA SERIES, MODERN-ART-GONZO-JOURNALISM BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II. (1-19-05)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n For roughly the price of a high-end Kindle, you can get a near perfect replica of Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s, Starry Night or Leonardo DaVinci\u2019s, Mona Lisa in the United States. For that reason, the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II mixes his body fluids with paint, to safeguard the investment of fine art collectors who wish to ensure the authenticity of his unique works of modern-art-gonzo-journalism.<\/p>\n \u201cBLEEDING WOMAN\u201d (36X36) DNA SERIES, MODERN-ART-GONZO-JOURNALISM, BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II. (2-2-05)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The DNA Series premiered at the controversial “Ground Zero” exhibit in 2005 during Art Basel Miami Week, to critical acclaim.<\/p>\n RARE, COLLECTOR\u2019S ITEM POSTCARD, PROMOTING THE CONTROVERSIAL \u201cGROUND ZERO\u201d EXHIBIT, WHICH INTRODUCED A GLOBAL AUDIENCE TO VICTOR-HUGO VACA II\u2019S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DNA SERIES, AS SEEN ON MAJOR TELEVISION NETWORKS.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The DNA Series was inspired by, “Piss Christ”,\u00a0a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili’s “The Holy Virgin Mary”, a\u00a0mixed-media painting depicting a black Madonna decorated with elephant\u00a0manure which sold at auction at Christie\u2019s in London for 2.9 million pounds ($4.6 million).<\/p>\n \u2018THE DEAD COCK\u201d (30X30) DNA SERIES, MODERN-ART-GONZO-JOURNALISM, BY MAVERICK ARTIST VICTOR-HUGO VACA II, WAS SOLD, AT AUCTION, ON JANUARY 29, 2009 AT \u201cTHE HIDEAWAY BEACH CLUB\u201d, IN MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA, AS PART OF THE PRESTIGIOUS, \u201cWET PAINT LIVE\u201d, AN ANNUAL CHARITY EVENT, CREATED TO BENEFIT EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS, ORGANIZED BY THE LEADERSHIP MARCO ALUMNI UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MARCO ISLAND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND MARY LEE MAPOTHER, ACTOR, TOM CRUISE\u2019S MOTHER. (1-21-05)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n When people protested, the City of New York and Mayor Giuliani brought a court case against the Brooklyn Museum, in an\u00a0attempt to evict and withdraw the annual, $7 million City Hall museum grant, for exhibiting, “The Holy Virgin Mary”, which, then Mayor of New York City,\u00a0Rudolph\u00a0Giuliani, described as, “sick”and “disgusting”. The museum director, Arnold L. Lehman, then filed a federal lawsuit against Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for a breach of the\u00a0First Amendment<\/a>\u00a0and the Brooklyn Museum won the court case.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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