UNCENSORED: Artist Juan Davila’s confronting painting ‘Holy Family’
See the artwork that religious groups and church leaders have branded “obscene” and “vulgar” and called for it to be removed from public display at a Queensland university. YOU BE THE JUDGE (WARNING: GRAPHIC)
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ARTIST Juan Davila’s confronting painting Holy Family is on show at the Griffith University Art Museum until the end of the month, in a rare public airing of the lewd piece, which is usually tucked away in a Brisbane art collector’s home.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Uncensored image of full artwork below
The artwork is crudely based on Michelangelo’s sculpture The Pieta, which is housed at St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City and depicts the body of Jesus Christ on the Virgin Mary’s lap after the Crucifixion.
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The state’s highest-ranking Catholic, Archbishop Mark Coleridge, said that it was “disappointing” the piece was included in an exhibition titled The Abyss at one of Queensland’s biggest universities, which received almost $300 million in government grants and funding last year.
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