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APPALLED. Imelda Marcos, who built the Cultural Center of the Philippines when she was first lady in the 1970s to showcase Filipino culture and arts, reads her statement of disgust over the controversial and “blasphemous” CCP art exhibit “Kulo,” which she viewed on Monday. INQUIRER PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines—The founder of the Cultural Center of the Philippines joined on Monday the uproar against an ongoing exhibit in the CCP, which Catholic leaders consider a desecration of Jesus Christ and the Holy Family.

A furious Ilocos Norte Representative Imelda Marcos, a former First Lady who put up the CCP to house the Filipino culture and arts in the 1970s, said she was considering filing administrative charges against CCP officials.

She called up Manila Rep. Amado Bagatsing twice on Monday, to express her displeasure over the exhibit “Kulo” by a group of 30 artists from the University of Sto. Tomas led by Mideo Cruz.

“Galit na galit (she was very angry). Sacrilegious daw (it was sacrilegious),” Bagatsing said of Marcos in an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

He said that Marcos was also particularly enraged by an image of Christ with a penis glued on his face and a figurine of Christ the King with rabbit ears, among others.

Bagatsing said that Marcos wanted “everything beautiful” in the Filipinos when she conceived the CCP.

“Oo nga eh, hindi naman beautiful ’yan eh. (That’s right. It is not beautiful),” Bagatsing further quoted Marcos as saying.

He said Marcos found some images in the exhibit as shown on television “bastos (lewd, crass).”

Bagatsing went to the CCP on Monday morning to see the exhibit but was told that it was closed on Mondays. He said Marcos was also scheduled to visit the CCP in the afternoon of the same day.

In a radio interview, Marcos said that such sacrilegious artwork should not be given room in the CCP, which was created with the vision of being “a monument to the Filipino spirit… [or a] sanctuary to the Filipino soul.”

She said that she was told of “human rights… freedom of the arts” when she called the CCP but stated that it was wrong to exhibit artwork that would hurt or offend people, and desecrate beliefs.

Cruz’s art exhibit “Polytheism,” which has been part of an exhibit since June 17 and will be on display until August 21, has drawn criticism from bishops and lay groups.

A letter demanding that the exhibit be closed was sent to CCP president Raul Sunico last week.

Bagatsing was scheduled to deliver a privilege speech on Monday to demand the resignation of CCP officials, closure of the exhibit and the holding of a House inquiry on the abuse of freedom of expression in the exhibit.

Bagatsing said Marcos promised to stand by him in this cause. “She said she will support me in developing administrative charges against CCP Chairman Sunico and other CCP officials for allowing the showing of such kind of exhibit.”

Told that Sunico was a multi-awarded artist, Bagatsing said all the awards should be withdrawn as the sectors that gave could have erred in bestowing them.

“There is a clear distinction between art and baliw (insane). How do you distinguish between an art and insanity? Ano iyan abstract (what is that, an abstract)? Susmaryosep! That’s the work of a sick mind. Only a devil can think of that,” Bagatsing said.

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  • Anonymous

    Honorable Bagatsing, are you GOD? By calling him names and baliw, you’re not different from him. Atupagin mo nalang ang mga constituent mong nagugutom at ang kriminalidad sa distrito mo.

  • Anonymous

    and MRS MARCOS, yes she has exchanged her insanity with shoes.

  • shane oy

    Oh a way to make peace with the catholic church, madam.
    whatever your intentions maybe, simply shut this part of the exhibit.

  • Anonymous

    looks like Cruz’s so-called-art didn’t quite match up to Imelda”s defnition of “cosmic beauty”. Lesson Learned: No two insane persons think alike.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QNLU7TV6IMDQ44UDLCQEUTFFNE Pizza Ria

    the parents of cruz gave their son a name appropriate to his sexual preference:  medio.  which means, half-girl half boy.  in other words, homosexual.  to put it clearly:  Bakla.  Bakla itong itong medio-medio cruz.  puro penis ang nasa utak nitong baklang ito, at ginamit pa si Jesus Christ sa kabaliwan niya sa penis.

    thanks to cong. imelda marcos and cong. bagatsing for their efforts to withdraw this kulo exhibit from the ccp, and for filing criminal charges against the incumbent ccp officials.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QNLU7TV6IMDQ44UDLCQEUTFFNE Pizza Ria

    i ask the ccp officials:  will you allow the works of medio-medio cruz hang on the walls of your own homes, such as the picture of Jesus Christ with penis on its face, or the cross with penis on it?  pare-pareho kayong mga baboy at bakla.  lumayas kayo dyan sa ccp!  alis dyan!

  • Chua Bee

    at bakit, is that homo a GOD to desecrate the divinity of the christian faith?  I can’t wait heads to roll at CCP,,,sack all these officials and banned these so called artists….what art—stupido—I can and anyone can be an artist without being sacriligeous and disrespectful… paka-inin kaya yan ng penis para maghunusdili

  • Anonymous

    nice, this is how mature Catholics should react.  you should eat MC’s artwork, Ms Chua Bee.  that should solve the problem.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4R2ECT66ZXHR5BHKGO36OF2XQA Emperador

    Halatang tanga ka nga.. kasi Ang Topic about sa baliw na Cruz na yan.. bobo mo.. mag hanap ka ng related page para dyan sa hinaing mo..

  • Anonymous

    Questions to Imelda: Are you hurt seeing paintings and work of art that depict the excesses, abuse, and human rights violation done under Marcos’ martial law? Is it blasphemy or sacrilege when art expresses and critiques your mindless profligacy, suspected corruption, two thousand pairs of shoes, ”theory” of a hole in the sky? Will you ever know that you had hurt/offended our sensibilities, to say the least? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VDMUJ6NKKCLWRMVMJRLJFI633I Rene V

    even the title of this so called art exhibit is inappropriate, “polytheism”, as it targets only the Christian Faith. if the artist has some balls, maybe he should also include the Faith of our brothers and sisters living in the south of our country. it is not too late to add to the exhibit in order to be true to its title. hehe

  • Anonymous

    Tumanda na si madam – ang dakilang magnanakaw – asawa ng dakilang magnanakaw din.

  • http://twitter.com/wisemen007 buboy gregorio

    dapat di na patagalin yan… alisin na agad yan!!!… nakakahiya, sobrang baboy na baboy na ang tingin sa bansa natin dahil sa mga baboy at buwayang pulitiko, pulis, militar at taga gubyerno…. mas lalo nyo pang bababuyin – kayong MGA BABOY NA ARTIST KUNO… SAMA NA YUNG MGA BABOY RING NAMUMUNO SA CCP…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arno-Krolikowski/100000017370884 Arno Krolikowski

     Aren´t there some corpses in the foundation of the CCP? At least that´s what i was told.
    And Imelda Marcos wanted everything beautiful in the Philippines? Well, one should take a look at the years of martial law if that was beautiful.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, another hypocrite! Eh diba kanya rin yung film center na nagpapalabas ng mga “malalaswang” “art film” nung panahon ng kapangyarihan nila? Parang ang bilis naman nya makalimot. Sabagay, wala naman talagang natatandaang maling ginawa yang lecheng matanda na yan.
    Between Medeo Cruz’s work and Imelda’s continued freedom to inflict herself on the Filipino, the latter is the greater obscenity.

  • Anonymous

    People of the Philippines like me, have you seen yet the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the paintings of Michelangelo? I’ve been there once.

    If not, please Google it.
     
    After that, then honestly gauge your morality and why we condemn this supposedly erring artist; so as the people of CCP.
     
    During the start of this controversy, I was just amused on how one could be so touchy if it comes to religion, if not blind worship.
     
    Then someone starts throwing stones. Isn’t it that in the Bible (John 8:7) it says: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.” Mr. Cruz maybe a sinner but do ‘we’, (the sinless) need to commit a sin by stoning him; by vandalizing him?
     
    Then suddenly, it’s looking more political. Are these big-mouthed politicians really seeking fairness and justice or winning votes for their future?
     
    Let’s sit down and think before we ask our priests. Please.

  • Anonymous

    Personal na atake na iyan. Ang pinag-uusapan eh ang ginawang pambababoy sa imahen ni Kristo. Eh kung picture mo ang lagyan ng penis, ano ang magiging reaction mo. I’m not a catholic but I respect somebody else’s faith.

  • Anonymous

    Sana hindi ka na nakisawsaw Madam Imelda Marcos. Ikaw ang isa sa pinakawalang moral ascendancy o ni katiting na K para pumuna dahil akala mo yata nakalimutan na ng bayan ang kalaswaan nyo nuong panahon ng Martial Law ng pamilya mong berdugo? Pagbayaran nyo muna yung mga tao at pamilyang nilabag nyo ang karapatan nuong kapanahunan nyo. Ni hindi nyo pa nga tinatanggap na malaking pagkakamali nyo yung Martial Law eh. Nga pala, ayaw mong makita yang wodden penis sa artwork ni Mideo Cruz dahil malalaking penis ang nakita mo nung kalandian days mo gaya ng nota nila Muammar Quadaffi (kaya nagkaroon ng Tripoli Agreement nuong 1976 eh binugaw ka ng diktador mong asawa at nagpakangkang ka sa isa pang diktador), si George Hamilton at ang pwersahang tinoyboy mong si Alfie Anido na pinapatay ninyo ng ayaw ng pumatol sayo. Tumahimik ka na muna at huwag ng makisawsaw sa usaping ito. Ok Madam? Hihiramin ko ulit yung famous quote ni Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao, MALASWA!

  • Anonymous

    so typical!!! ayan – mga politiko – inaaapi na naman ang mga di kayang lumaban!!!

    anong ibig kong sabihin???itong mga ito – may sinabi ba sila nung nabigyan mga nanood ng TV ng bad finger ng isang elected official???

    di ba bastos iyon?

    oh…and look who is nakikisawsaw???

  • http://ourdailybore.blogspot.com our daily bore

    so okay lang ang martial law and human rights violation? 

  • http://twitter.com/DoctorE0 DoctorE DoctorE

    You are so brainwashed by the catholic church

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BNA6FLOA3ZJAH6IFP2KGLUDCXE bcon

    Why, is there any persona in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting with a penis on his/her face???

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BNA6FLOA3ZJAH6IFP2KGLUDCXE bcon

    He is lucky. Christians are not as zealous as Muslims. Kundi patay na siya. Remember, it was ONLY a CARTOON depiction of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad that they made fun of in Denmark, not even an actual life-like drawing, and what came about is the death of 100 people and the burning of their embassies in Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon and Iran.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WOGSLHDI3XK4MBJF5IANBVKLHI james

    Desecrate the holy images of the Catholic faith and you’ll get only reprimand and administrative charges. Desecrate the name of Muhammad and you’ll see your head in a platter. Kaya niyo lang gawin yan sa images ng mga Katoliko.. Subukan nyong bastosin ang Islam kaya?

  • Guest

    Madame Congresswoman Marcos, as a Catholic, you have the right to express your disgust against the painting of Mideo Cruz who blasphemously displayed his obsession of male sex organ.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think someone has to see the Sistine Chapel in Vatican nor the Michaelangelo to know and exercise your belief and faith.  This is all about respect for other people’s religious belief, and such belief is not anchored on what you see in other countries, I hope.

    The issue here is respect.  Other people’s belief and faith is insulted and trampled upon, just because a desperate artist wanted to express his freedom of expression.  No freedom in whatever kind is absolute, freedom ends when respect and rights are violated.

    yes, cast the first stone, but making a stand and shouting here that my rights and beliefs are trampled upon is not tantamount to claiming being clean and thus should just shut up.  casting the first stone does not mean you should just shut up, nobody here is claiming to be sinless, but when your beliefs are violated and insulted you can opt to stand for it. 

    In the end, it is just RESPECT.  It cannot even be understood that a state run facility is allowing this, at the expense of taxpayer’s money.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VY25ZOHU3FJFFX6CYSH5W4AX3I sugbu

    Meron pa ba tayong Board of Censors……..? kung gusto ninyo ng anarchy dahil hindi pinapatupad ang batas…i am okey with that !

  • Anonymous

    @ doctore doctore
    “You are so brainwashed by the catholic church”

    AND WHY ARE YOU SO BRAINWASHED BY YOUR BELIEF?????? WHATEVER IT MAY BE!
    IT’S NOT ABOUT RELIGION or being CATHOLICS BUT MORALITY!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BDKDA4PBJULTTOZCJFQLWQQJYM Pinoy Ako

    Dapat magalit na ang mga Muslims kasi ininsulto si Jesus Christ na para sa kanila ay isang ginagalang nilang propeta. Calling all Muslims to act now!!!

  • Anonymous

    mentaly ill gay artist…..period….subukan mo yurakan koran namin baka walang matititra sayo mideo cruz…inuinsulto mo ang mga may religios belief….nasaktan din ako dahil sa ginawa mong iyan, paano kung sa amin ginawa yan…hindi maabutan ng umaga yang artist nayan…..mark my word maraming huhunting sayo….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BDKDA4PBJULTTOZCJFQLWQQJYM Pinoy Ako

    eh iyan nga ang lagi nilang kinakain, penis, kaya naisip nilang gawin artwork “kuno”. kung walang magawa ang mga kristyano dyan, isumbong na sa mga Muslims kasi nainsulto na ang isa sa kanilang ginagalang na propeta. Calling all Imams to issue an order to all Muslims to stop this people in their craziness and to Punish them including those who allowed it in CCP.

  • Anonymous

    @ braveheart8

    AS IF HINDI KAYO/TAYO NAKIKISAWSAW! she’s got the right to express her opinion, like what we’re doing. i don’t think she’s violating anything pertaining this particular issue!

  • Anonymous

    I’m just as appalled as everyone else by this so-called art exhibit but Imelda Marcos DID NOT build the CCP, it was built with the Filipino people’s money and not hers. What she’s done to the country is just as disgusting as the exhibit.

  • anthony b

    Maybe RAUL SUNICO is under the IMPERIUS CURSE by the DEATH EATERS, reason why he approved such blasphemous display and allowed the desecration of catholic beliefs, in where else, CCP. And what best to defend such devil’s act but to insist that of Freedom of Speech/ or Arts? or whatever! That is pure INSANITY! It’s tantamount to an EVIL mind!

  • Anonymous

    Meron pa bang higit na BLASPHEMOUS sa walang-awang ACTUAL na pagpatay at pagkatay sa kapwa mo Pilipino nung panahon ng diktadura ng TNL na Makoy?  Bakit nung panahong yon, e, walang lumantad na matapang na mga kabayan upang ikatwa ang BLASHEMOUS na pagpatay sa kanilang kapwa at pagka-wala ng kalayaan sa bayan?  Bakit?  Tapos itong mga VISUAL arts na puro guhit at drawing lang, e,  parang may nangyaring malala na makaka-apekto sa pamumuhay ng mga kabayan?  MALAKING PAGBABALATKAYO AT PAKITANG-TAO  na naman yang pina-parada ng mga gustong ma-kodakan para sa mga media.  Balderdash!!!

  • Jose Miguel Pelerinu

    Pity that the capital city’s congressman doesnt even know that the CCP (and most museums) are closed on Mondays. tsk. tsk. tsk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GUAKSFRF6TNYAXPEDSEGHRP6UI pra

    Catholics lets show UNION by doing what the Muslims did when a cartoonist in Denmark portrayed Prophet Mohammad in a bad way.

  • Jose Miguel Pelerinu

    Quotable quote: “There is a clear distinction between art and baliw (insane). How do you distinguish between an art and insanity? Ano iyan abstract (what is that, an abstract)? Susmaryosep! That’s the work of a sick mind. Only a devil can think of that,” Bagatsing.(Sigh)

  • Anonymous

    kabayan, i think you’ll find a few people that will equal my abhorrence of the conjugal dictatorship.  but let’s give credit to where its due ..  imelda, for all her warts left some legacies that the filipino people are now enjoying.  since walang maglakas loob na kalabanin ang mag-asawang marcos noong kalakasan nila, me nagawang mga proyekto na kung sa ngayon panahon hindi maitayo.

    silipin natin … cultural center, heart center, marcos hi-way in baguio, the paved roads of the whole ilocandia area (di nga lang fair) .. at meron pang iba ..

    sa panahon ni gloria, madami na din sana.  naging biktima lang ng pulitika…. north and south rail, nbn/zte .. well, we can always dream …

    we all can rant and rave … pero at the end of the day, what was/were the legacy that were left behind and will be left behind by our leaders?

  • Anonymous

    paging simeon aquino  … bilis mong patalsikin ang mga hindi mo kakampi  ..

    ang board ba ng cpp eh kaibigan din o outside the circle?  kick them out …. pero kung miyembro ng samahang kkk … okay lang.. naiintindihan namin ….

    walang kkk na sasabit ..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JS2L5G6FBKJH6VRAMERMCCJLIY Gagami Tuladyu

    hihi!So YOU are now sinless huh? at may mga kasama ka pa? sino sina mideo at si dailyborat? ROfL! kundi ka ba naman ogag nagko qoute ka pa ng bible pinapakita mo lang katangahan mo! Kung talagang susundin yan literally eh di sana walang pwedeng hatulan ang husgado dahil sila rin naman nagkakasala din!  virtual AsZ ka nga! hihihi! ;)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JS2L5G6FBKJH6VRAMERMCCJLIY Gagami Tuladyu

    so dahil makasalanan siya hindi na siya pwedeng magkaroon ng respeto sa pinaniniwalaan niyang imahe ng diyos nya? ganun ba ang gusto nung jesus? hihi! tapos inggit ka dahil hanggang ngayon mas mayaman siya sayo? loL! INGITerAng kufal!  ;) 

  • Anonymous

    Sobrang kalapastanganan ang ginawang ito sa imahe ni Hesukristo,masakit
    sa aming mga katoliko ang pambabastos na ito.Pasalamat kayo at hindi ito
    panahon ng Diktadura ng bisitahin ni Madam Imelda Marcos ang exhibit,
    kung hindi may paglalagyan sana kayo!

  • Anonymous

    LOOK WHO’S TALKING- A WOMAN WHO JUST BECAUSE SHE INITITIATED THE BUILDING OF THAT CCP FROM PEOPLES’ MONEY THOUGHT SHE OWNS IT. A WOMAN WHO IS OFFENDED BY WHAT SHE CALLS BLASPHEMOUS/SACRILEGIOUS ART,WHEN ON HER HUSBAND’S DICTATORSHIP RULE
    MANY HAVE VANISHED AND SUFFERED FOR THE ONLY REASON OF NOT AGREEING WITH THEIR
    IDEAS/PLANS AND DIABOLIC MINDS.SHAME.

  • Anonymous

    To watS – uP .I’m a Catholic but I’m sorry I disagree with your comment and/or opinion.I don’t think Jesus or God would have wanted that artist to be killed or punished just because he expressed his views which
    was different from ours.I don’t think God would have punished that artist just because he made fun?
    of HIM as we see it.Your’s is “unChristian” and mediocre to say the least.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JY5Y7MAC3T3VA2DKLZHATJU6N4 Macario

    Perhaps Imelda and Bagatsing have never thought that the CCP is non-sectarian and artists enjoy academic freedom in expressing what to them is art, which to Imelda or Bagatsing may be a sacrilege.  If religion is going to dictate what art is, we’ll be back to the dark ages.  Do we like that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    Imelda Marcos SHOULD be SHOCKED of ALL the corruption charge AGAINST HER that AFFECTED millions of Pilipino in POVERTY as a RESULTS——NOT this artist who DEFECT catholics—-
    As long as the ARTIST DONT break any LAWS—-he has to ALLOWED making EXHIBITIONs—–
    ARTIST dont CREATES POVERTY and HUNGER—its MAKES PEOPLE WONDER and THINKS—-
    Imelda ans Bagatsing DONT like to THINK—

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    For me INSANE and DEVIL are the CORRUPT pilipino officials who STOLE money from the POOR–
    An ARTIST Dont CREATES poverty and HUNGER—-its FEEDs your BRAIN to THINK—

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    I  agree with you

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JY5Y7MAC3T3VA2DKLZHATJU6N4 Macario

    Here is a post from a certain Mr. bibabawan posted in Philstar which I think is very educational , and he said:   ” I think the comparison with Pnoy and Christ with the figure of a penis is out of place because it does not address the real issue.  I am not an artists nor do I indulge in art criticism but I could see clearly what the message of the artist is.  He is showing us the conflict between religious beliefs, personified by the face of Christ, and family planning, personified by the scultured penis stuck on the face of Christ.  I do not see any sacrilege in his artform; I only see a very strong message that religion and reproductive health could not go together.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    you nailed it—–I agree wiyh you

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707583304 Raul Todavia Lumacad

    Well, Mr. Mideo Cruz, if this exhibit is really about art, freedom of expression or whatsoever then I will challenge you to do the same to some other religions other than Christianity. I’m sure there will be a riot and your head will roll at the halls of the CCP. Somehow you did some exhibit of your mother with a vagina in her face.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707583304 Raul Todavia Lumacad

    Mr. Flores, I think I don’t agree with you. The poor Filipinos do not
    pay their TAXES to the Philippine government. So what money are you
    talking about? And being poor means no money so therefore no money was
    stolen.

  • http://twitter.com/Rhymzilog Rhym Zilog

    Immediately, upon seeing the thing here in Inquirer pumasok kagad sa isip ko na it is another form of blasphemy done by insane artist if not devil induced talent. I am not very religious but I have a strong faith in our Almighty God and I don’t consider myself Catholic Christian but a mix Christian and Muslim believer. I greatly rejected worshiping idols or any images that depicts any religion. What I hated and considered blasphemous act is when a person or group of people with intention to create protest by directly or indirectly using the religion or use a means that has something to do with the religious belief then he or they are committing an abominable mistakes or sins. This kind of art display created by an artist is very worrying because it signify the limit of his imagination, lack of creativity to send a signal of protest to our government if that is the objective, without crossing the boundary of Christian spirit and faith, good moral, being Christian or whatever denomination he belongs to. Very true it is not Jesus Christ and it is not the image of His but the message the artist wanted to convey supports the objective and the intention with the religion in mind. It is evil masquerading in a form of art. I believe in a separation of state or government and a religion but the deed is not justifiable worthy of any values. What if I duplicated this blasphemous kind of art and used the portrait of blasphemous artist parents instead in protest, would he be happy?        

  • Anonymous

    Sa caption under the picture,”Imelda who built the CCP” at doon sa article “the founder of CCP.”  Mga walang utang no loob kayong mga exhibitors! Dapat pictures ng mga owners ang inilagay ninyo.

    Seriously, agreed ako sa sinabi ng isang commenter dito na iyon ay “art sending a message” kaya lang if you consider the very religious Filipinos, the exhibitors went overboard. Marami sa atin ang hindi pa handa sa ganyan. Ang totoo, kung sa ibang religion natin ginawa iyan eh baka magunaw ang mundo. Hindi ba?

  • Anonymous

    Ex 20:3-4 (NIV) “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”

  • Anonymous

    I beleive you have a myopic view Mr Lumacad.Even if the “poor” do not pay their TAXES to the Government,indirectly there are still paying it in the form of what they consume,since most of what they consume are goods that are taxed.Besides Mr Flores probably meant,majority of the Filipinos who are directly paying their taxes or those who are working or have jobs but are categorized as poor.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000430542057 Harold Bautista

    artists? feeding my brain to think? hahaha. dream on. what would i get from you guys? your illogical logic? what a bunch of swellhead!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000430542057 Harold Bautista

    hahaha. dapat name nya Mr. Kababawan

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000430542057 Harold Bautista

    RH bill is obviously one of the issues that Mideo, the gutter artist, wants to convey in his art mess. But with poor conceptualization and execution, it has become a cheap dig at the Catholic church’s stand on family planning, etc. The message has become too literal and not thought-provoking as what he would like to project. And it relies solely on its shock value for people to notice it. It succeeds in that aspect, at the expense of millions of Filipino Catholics who are peacefully practicing their religious beliefs. If Mideo has issues against the church then train his gun on the church hierarchy and not indiscriminately fire his gun, leaving behind so many injured spirits and unnecessary collateral damage. Now he’s reaping the wrath of those he slighted.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    CORRUPT pilipino officials WILL surely SHOCK in this EXHIBITIONS——-WHY?
    Because they WANT to WASH theire DIRTY SOUL—–and BELIEVE they will be FORGIVEN—-
    They WILL surely HIDE theire CORRUPT mentality by USING this ART exhibition–

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silvester-Flores/100000336098459 Silvester Flores

    yes—-all pilipino middle class was ERAISED under Marcos regime—-Pilipino started to SEEK work abroad—-in SUB-SLAVE situation—-

  • Anonymous

    Mas malaking kasalanan ang lapastangin ang Mahal na Poon kaysa maging corrupt.

  • Anonymous

    Dr. Albert Einstein said, God is Almighty wise but not malicious..we got angry to that ccp exhibits with mr.raul sunico, mr.medio cruz, but they are only our own shadow so we got angry to our ownselves…b4 we file a case against them to be righteous we do ourselves repentance-selfredemption-reverence of wisdom.. God give us freewill as what we are all doing here on earth..but real freedom founded first for us to obliged to pray 5xaday, not to be a slave of our own laziness, not a slave of our corrupted minds..study this 
    God is Love is cia-creator infinite absolute, christian islamic affirmist, conscience intelligence absolution..
    to resolved our own cia- corruption idolatry anomaly… God is subtle but not malicious…ok we clean sunico, m.cruz etc..the process also will clean ourselves.. Filipinos, we are all noble people..Lolo seraph

  • Anonymous

    @eyeforaneye12345

    Kahit sino may right makisawsaw sa isyung ito pati si Imelda Marcos sana. Pero kaya ko na single out si Imelda Marcos ay dahil siya kabilang ang diktadurang rehimen at ako mismo ay may personal na issue na sa tingin ko ay hindi nakakapagbigay ng katiting na K sa kanya sa anumang issue na may usaping kalayaan at karapatan. Buti nga pinapatulan kitang makisawsaw sa issue naming dalawa ni Imelda Marcos kasama na ang kanilang diktadura. Aktibo ako sa protesta nuong panahon ng diktadurang Marcos ng ako’y dakpin ng mga pasistang galamay nila sa may Cubao at dumanas ng toture. Kung hindi lang ako nakatakas at magtago ng halos isang taon ay baka nakasama ako sa mga pinatay nila ng araw na yon. Kaya alam mo na kung bakit malaya kang nakakakontra ngayon ng walang takot dahil kasama ako sa mga nagtaya na wakasan ang madilim na yugto ng ating kasaysayan na dinulot ng rehimeng Marcos. Ni hindi pa nga nila tinatanggap na malaking pagkakamali nila yung Martial Law eh. Alam mo na ngayon?

  • http://twitter.com/AbuGok AbuGok

    Akala siguro ni Cruz et al. ay sobrang bobo na nang mga Pilipino, na kailangan nyang ipagduldulan sa mukha ng lahat ng taong nakakita yung mensahe ng ‘sining’ na gawa nya.
    Mali din nang CCP admins. ang pagpayag nilang maging daan para ipahiwatig ni G. Cruz ang kanyang saloobin laban sa simbahan o laban sa relihiyong baka siya mismo ay kabilang.
    G. Cruz, marami pa din pong Pilipino na marunong umintindi ng malumanay na pahayag, di nyo kami kailangang sigawan.

  • Anonymous

    imelda marcos: the greatest service you can do the nation is to do an angie reyes. but, before that, return all the wealth you and your husband amassed, beg the Lord’s and nation’s forgiveness, and come clean. else, you and your life remain an abomination to the faith you so dramatically profess to adhere to.

  • John

    this is not a case of freedom of expression!  this is definitely a degradation of the filipino society! why not put a picture of his mother with a penis on her forehead; a picture of his father with a vagina as his mouth? we do we have to stoop so low for art’s sake?  is this really art or just plain stupidity?

  • Anonymous

    “Kulo” led by Mr. Mideo Cruz is a well known Gay organization with lewd artistry concept in thier mind. I would appreciate the concept of Mr. Cruz if Mr. Mideo Cruz and company will put uncircumsized Penis on thier forehead while travelling the entire philippines to promote thier organization….

     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E7SFPQFWHHEAJ4IZKPD7OYJXVM Jabba

    I never like Imelda Marcos but this time I have to commend her action. As a Catholic, I am very very angry to this Mideo Cruz and the management of CCP. This desecration of Christ’ images is unforgivable. Wag ka ng lalabas ng bahay Mideo Cruz, we Catholics are issuing a version of fatwa against you Mideo Cruz, you sob!!!
    Raul Sunico and cohorts mabuti pa mag resign na kayo para di kayo madamay sa fatwa!

  • Anonymous

    Now look who’s pontificating? The Mrs.Beautiful of the arts, Imelda Marcos. Sure the CCP was her brain child but what she had in her brain was wealth and power, not art- unless kleptocracy is an art of government, then I believe her.

  • Anonymous

    Imelda is known for her superb TASTE, she has been consistent. Admirable!

  • Anonymous

    I think the one who handles the ccp should resign, these kind of art exhibit is not acceptable to a religious country like the Phil.That guy who made this art exhibit want to be famous, please your art work is a work of a devil, and your the worst ever in this world you make the Phil. so bad just for an exposure shame on you…………

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IO2LZ4AWJRIRXO7DXWPGTOL73A Atilla

    it’s one thing to advertise gay pride (i disagree with it but i respect their right to express it) and another to display this abomination. it shows no pride, no artistic value other than that of affirmation that man can indeed sink to a level as low as a chimpanzee playing with itself at a very filthy zoo.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IO2LZ4AWJRIRXO7DXWPGTOL73A Atilla

    Well said, stick to the issue. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVQLYU7XNCL6LEW4TXN5CHTCNM voltaire e

    GASGAS NA gasgas na ang ganitong klaseng “art”.  Ilang beses nang ginawa ito ng mga artists sa ibang bansa, mas kakaiba at nakakakapagpaisip.  Para sa akin, hindi sya nagtagumpay – katatawanan ito, kayabangan, at mapagpanggap na mas maalam at malawak.

  • Anonymous

    When Saladin took over Hagia Sophia , and even after turning it to a Mosqe you can still see the paintings of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, di niya na konsensyang babuyin yung Cathedral at siguro kung meron dapat  magagalit sa mga Christians/Catholics  siya iyon, dahil sa mga Crusaders , ni respeto niya yung Constantiople , kaya kahit sa Europe ni re respeto siya. tapos itong walang kwenta na fake artist ganon na lang niya babuyin yung imahe na kahit kalaban ay di naatim alisin or babuyin yung bagay na alam niya na mahalaga sa mga kristiyano.  

  • Anonymous

    yup, kahit sa turkey. ganoon din.. di po nila binastos ang imahe ng Christo

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MZOKC6X7Q52Z4E5VLYNB7GF72Y Kaloy

    This is beyond blasphemy! This so called “ARTIST” should be treated at a mental hospital. This is craziness and insanity in its’ highest form

  • http://twitter.com/whipnsaddle Bastonero

    I think Maricon Cruz had a bad expirience with guys thats why he put those stuff to Jesus image or maybe he prayed to Jesus before pro di natupad ang dasal kaya ayon bumawi…..may tililing itong bading na ito…..Maricon……

  • http://www.facebook.com/aznayarasuman Naya Rosario

    True, there is artistic freedom but it is not that absolute as to befoul an image that is highly revered by the multitude. Oh well, some people have no sense of propriety. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/bloisaga Bonavel Loisaga

    dat is a big insult for a catholic person like me…i don’t care if it is mr.cruz way of expressing his talent in art..but, y is it he use the sacred image of Lord Jesus Christ. oh for sake! Lord forgive him, for they do not know wat he is doing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/bloisaga Bonavel Loisaga

    gasgas na nga, pero kelangan na matigil….

  • http://gilbeyaguirre.com/ Gilbey

    As a marketer’s point of view, Mideo Cruz just make use of this opportunity to gain his popularity just like any celebrity’s doing some sex scandal, all we know we are twisted with this controversial issue to be aware that he is an “immature and juvenile” existing artist that are striving to make his name on the industry. We cannot exclude the fact that he really MADE IT on creating that buzz, and by these HIS name will be included in our history. Dalawa lang naman ang pwede gawin ng tao para sumikat GUMAWA NG MASAMA o GUMAWA ng KABUTIHAN although sometimes doing good doesn’t take too much attention from the public. I admire Mideo in a sense that HE IS FINALLY POPULAR on this issue, but sadly He will face the consequences and He will be branded negatively by what He did.



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