Kelly Dunleavy
Eight pigs that were tatooed with the trademark Louis Vuitton logo are being banned from a modern art exhibit in Shanghai over animal rights concerns.
The artist has tatooed pigs since the mid-1990s. The artist tatooed these pigs with different designs, two with the Vuitton symbol, as piglets and “tracked the canvases” as they grew up.
The pigs were bred outside Beijing and were sold to collectors once killed and stuffed.
The artist claims the tatooed pigs enjoy “better living conditions than millions of poor Chinese”.
While the tatoos on pigs were banned, the artist did sell the tatoo off a man’s back. A swiss man agreed to have “art” tatooed on his back, which was sold $215,000 — to be collected upon the man’s death.
