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Bono’s Transformation Into Jesus Is Complete

8/20/07, 11:06 am EST


Deliciously unsubtle pop sculpture seems to be thriving. Last year New York-based artist Daniel Edwards sculpted a pregnant Britney Spears down on all fours. Then this spring he delivered Paris Hilton Autopsy, a wickedly morbid piece that shows a dead, naked Paris, and allows viewers to play with her removable internal organs. And now someone has finally turned Bono into Jesus. Dutch sculptor Frans Smeets has constructed a work he calls Jesus Loves You Too, which depicts the Irish rock icon in a long white robe (endorsed by Nike, oddly) and sporting the U2 frontman’s trademark flashy sunglasses.
At the rocker’s feet is an emaciated African child who gazes desperately up at his savior, though Bono seems woefully uninterested. Creepy? Awesome? We have to vote both.

[Photos courtesy of Frans Smeets]


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Sanchez | 8/20/2007, 11:42 am EST

Yikes.

Cory | 8/20/2007, 12:35 pm EST

It looks like Mel Brooks as Yogurt from Spaceballs. Only taller. Creeeeepy.

DC | 8/20/2007, 1:07 pm EST

Nice to see Ben Kingsley back in action…

Joe | 8/20/2007, 2:13 pm EST

How can this not be the cover of U2’s next album?

Jordi | 8/21/2007, 4:23 am EST

FINALLY!!!

SVUF | 8/21/2007, 8:34 am EST

There is and ever will be only one Jesus Christ…and that is the son of GOD himself!!

Khanada | 8/21/2007, 7:52 pm EST

Do you really think he gave his permission for this? Did Paris for her autopsy? Get a grip people.

Khanada | 8/21/2007, 7:52 pm EST

Do you really think he gave his permission for this? Did Paris for her autopsy? Get a grip people.

Jennifer Lord | 8/22/2007, 1:36 pm EST

I just can’t believe that he would do Britney Spears…Paris Hilton…and then BONO? The first two, I can see someone lashing out at, but I will never understand why anyone has a problem with Bono. The whole corporate sponsorship element of it is just plain incorrect, as they have refused that for years and even the Apple thing was totally unpaid.

Don't call me white | 8/23/2007, 12:23 am EST

Jesus Christ! is coming back, he wants to kick Mel Gibson’s ass…

bukowski | 8/23/2007, 1:01 am EST

I dunno . . . Mel can be a pretty nasty son a bitch when he drinks

4D | 8/23/2007, 7:09 am EST

Honestly, who would want those in their living room? Cubism is far more interesting.

Sian | 8/23/2007, 11:40 am EST

Everything about that sculpture is WRONG

bukowski | 8/23/2007, 3:12 pm EST

I agree

Edge 3:16 | 8/23/2007, 3:33 pm EST

The difference, of course, being that Bono actually exists

Hamish | 8/23/2007, 3:43 pm EST

Bono is another rich S.O.B. that wants to tell us how to spend the money that’s confiscated from us, all in the name of the ‘greater good’. yeah, right. Has he or his mates donated a tuppence for these causes he gets so much coverage for? Haven’t heard a word….

frankie b | 8/23/2007, 3:43 pm EST

nobody does a pizza like Totino’s!! NOBODAAA!

Pyrex | 8/23/2007, 3:43 pm EST

Oh dear god.. No wait, I mean jesus christ.. NO! DAMNIT.

JimR | 8/23/2007, 3:52 pm EST

“Has he or his mates donated a tuppence for these causes he gets so much coverage for? Haven’t heard a word….”

Millions and millions and millions… check your facts before you make an ignorant statement like that. And anyway, I didn’t realize people were obligated to report their donation to you.

JimR | 8/23/2007, 3:57 pm EST

“There is and ever will be only one Jesus Christ…and that is the son of GOD himself!!”

Clapton’s kid?

c0mBaTkArL | 8/23/2007, 3:59 pm EST

“That’s not God, that’s Bono. He just thinks he’s God.”

Bleeding Munk | 8/23/2007, 4:06 pm EST

Bono joins the ranks of Oprah, sir Geldof and the likes. Doing nothing more than wearing their charity as a badge. Bono is a Jesus wannabe that should be crucified on the cross of narcissism. Let me sing, let me preach, but I refuse to remove my sunglasses even indoors during a complete black out in the fear of looking uncool. And maybe we can all wake up and skip in a field of frosted stawberries frolicking with the chocolate bunnies of equality. Get a grip we are human nothing or no one will change our nature untill possibly a very real and pissed of Jesus comes down.

JimR | 8/23/2007, 4:08 pm EST

“And maybe we can all wake up and skip in a field of frosted stawberries frolicking with the chocolate bunnies of equality.”

LOL

The Edge | 8/23/2007, 4:19 pm EST

He looks more like Ghandi crossed with a Ferenghi than he does God/Jesus/Whomever

Fred | 8/23/2007, 4:22 pm EST

I hate Bono and everything he stands for. He probably masturbates to pictures of himself.

mdh | 8/23/2007, 4:27 pm EST

Thanks to that sculpture, I’m not even sure who I am anymore…

Bono fan | 8/23/2007, 4:36 pm EST

Bono is the greatest rock star EVAR.

me2 | 8/23/2007, 4:38 pm EST

looks like someone stuck a couple of eyes and a mouth on a giant turd.

all.wrong | 8/23/2007, 5:01 pm EST

http://www.rickross.com/groups/heavensgate.html

Read about Heaven’s Gate, and the Nike Swoosh…

Man, all of you are thick…

Mark | 8/23/2007, 5:02 pm EST

Bono and Company didn’t much like paying taxes himself so he and his band mates moved shop from Ireland to the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, why aren’t you donating your middle class income to Africa?

NOFX | 8/23/2007, 5:29 pm EST

All wrong: Thanks Mr. Obvious, I never made the connection. Porcupine Tree has a song “Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth” with a recording of that wack-job in it.

Klaatu | 8/23/2007, 5:54 pm EST

Bono has never done anything to deserve the kind of invective displayed here. He has raised millions of dollars for the poor and even dared to bridge the gap between the right and left in DC to do it. Yes he is trying to be like Jesus. That is what Christians are supposed to do. Some of you people would rather emulate pharisees, and from what I read here, you’re damn good at it.

Tom | 8/23/2007, 6:24 pm EST

I can’t stop crying thinking about the way Bono has been subjected to ridicule here! He is a gift from God to the people of the world and they’re crucifying him! I can’t stop crying, screaming, punching my computer or shitting since I’ve seen this. Only Bono can save me now!

Vance Qualteri | 8/23/2007, 6:53 pm EST

I hope Bono reads this! I am so relieved that very few people are clueless enough to like him! Fuck Bono! Get the U.S. out of the U.N!

James | 8/23/2007, 6:58 pm EST

I wonder why it is that so many people viciously attack others who try to improve the world? Is it jealousy? Simple hatred of success?

George | 8/23/2007, 6:58 pm EST

If Bono really cared about Africans dying unecessarily, he would be fighting to lift the ban on DDT. Many more have died from malaria than all other causes combined.

rick | 8/23/2007, 7:16 pm EST

the only thing bono ever gave a hooey about was himself.i cant believe there are so many of you self deluded idiots out there.

kim | 8/23/2007, 7:33 pm EST

Bleeding Munk:
He wears the sunglasses because 30 years of having flashbulbs in your face has made him nearly blind. You try living that lifestyle without dying of an overdose. He is perfection.

Niki | 8/23/2007, 8:01 pm EST

Looks more like one of the ferengi on star trek

Love the nike swoosh... | 8/23/2007, 8:16 pm EST

‘Cause it tells the real story of child/prison slave labor in China.

Klaatu | 8/24/2007, 1:02 am EST

George,

You and I agree about DDT, but I don’t think Bono’s silence on that subject is tantanmount to not caring about Africa.

Radical environmentalism, which is now mainstream thanks to Al Gore, does a lot of harm along with whatever good it does. It is way past time to lift the ban on DDT.

Uisgea | 8/24/2007, 2:01 am EST

Now, now–
Mr Vox has, for a pie-eyed-Hollywood-nutjob-from -Ireland, done a bit of good. I don’t know precisely what, but he seems to have heightened the awarenesses of people who try to resemble him in various and vague ways. Which I suppose is good. Innumerable Biafran starving infants have benefited from his sunglasses.

Meanwhile, a Nobel Peace Prize winner languishes under house arrest for the eleventh year running, and no one gives a flip, because Bono hasn’t taken his flair there.

I admire his moxie for tackling global issues, but–in for a penny, in for a pound.

For a while, it looked like the death of Mother Teresa left an opening in the Saint Pack, and he was gunning for it.

He just has to make up his mind about what he wants to do, and commit to it–like all the rest of us. He isn’t any better or any worse than anyone else; he just has an enormous of money. Take his moralistic grandstanding with a grain of salt, and go back to tending your own garden, which is what I intend to do as soon as the sun comes up.

chubsoda | 8/24/2007, 3:10 am EST

I want to see Bono digging a ditch and sweatin it out in Africa. Only then will I believe.

Boomerang.nl | 8/24/2007, 6:02 am EST

Dutch website Boomerang.nl has published this sculpture as an official postcard to promote a Frans Smeets exhibition at the beginning of this year. You can now send it as an ecard via: http://www.boomerang.nl/werk/b oomerang/jesus-loves-you-too/

Diane | 8/24/2007, 10:09 am EST

WEird

benstone | 8/24/2007, 11:50 am EST

you try to help people and you get cut down. Cynicism is alive and well.

benstone | 8/24/2007, 11:50 am EST

you try to help people and you get cut down. Cynicism is alive and well.

Bleeding Munk | 8/24/2007, 12:52 pm EST

“Meanwhile, why aren’t you donating your middle class income to Africa?” — Mark

Um, my middle class money is too busy suporting a corrupt government in North America, as opposed to the one I used to have in Africa as Bono preaches racial and spiritual equality. Africa has become the aborted result of colonial opression and tribal empowerment, the “millions” of raised funds for Africa really seem to be making the difference dont they?. Do you honestly believe that the world will give undivided attention to the matters in Africa? Not as long as the short, bald, fat white man is in charge. Do you see this changing anytime soon? We are human and we are corrupt. And to hold Bono as venerable pop-star deity is the one of the very reasons our society continues degress and the irony being its my middle class dollars that support an act, he sings, thats what he does, whoopi. I want to see his self proclaimed ass wash the shitters in a public school for retards in Brooklyn then we will see how enlightened he feels. He is a man nothing more.Get back to supporting and strengthening your family as charity does begin at home.

Jesus is coming and he is pissed off!

Termite Brain | 8/24/2007, 6:44 pm EST

I had a Bono but rubbed it out.

utwogirl | 8/24/2007, 10:12 pm EST

Oh people relax and get a life!
your just jealous…Bono’s hot..your not! He can do good and does and you probably don’t! The sculpture is super creepy and I’m sure Bono thinks so too.

bukowski | 8/24/2007, 11:26 pm EST

Edge 3:16 A man named Jesus Christ did roam the earth. There WAS such a person

TheILLusionofYourLife | 9/8/2007, 12:48 am EST

wait a second wheres Michael Jackson…..

HenryRollins | 9/8/2007, 12:52 am EST

he not getting killed by now probably means he’s just a puppet of the Global Elite to profit off the poor. If anything, Bono is a sick and twisted individual and has serious issues of ego and power. If I ever get close to him I’d take a crack at him. We work far too hard in life to put up with this crap.

HenryRollins | 9/8/2007, 12:52 am EST

he not getting killed by now probably means he’s just a puppet of the Global Elite to profit off the poor. If anything, Bono is a sick and twisted individual and has serious issues of ego and power. If I ever get close to him I’d take a crack at him. We work far too hard in life to put up with this crap.

HenryRollins | 9/8/2007, 12:52 am EST

he not getting killed by now probably means he’s just a puppet of the Global Elite to profit off the poor. If anything, Bono is a sick and twisted individual and has serious issues of ego and power. If I ever get close to him I’d take a crack at him. We work far too hard in life to put up with this crap.

hula | 9/9/2007, 2:40 am EST

i don’t care if that’s supposed to be art. it’s still ugly and looks like it belongs in the wax museum of horrors.

LetRalphDebate | 9/27/2009, 10:12 pm EST

if you are one of those people who believe that America is a great place than you will have to accept that ego is an inherent aspect of humanity. without ego you wouldn’t have capitalism and without capitalism there would be no America as we know it. so bono’s ego and christ wanna be tendencies are really not the issue. more so the problem lays in our choice of leadership, in the fact that we especially don’t care about what smart people have to say. we care about how they look and how strong their personality is (otherwise we could have had more soft spoken, perhaps even grotesquely ugly, but nonetheless more diplomatically capable individuals in the white house as opposed to…well, cowboys and hollywood stars financed by corporate interests). i believe bono has understood what the world responds to. it’s not the fault of a rock star if it takes an especially imperfect one with his beautiful melodies and buffoon like egotism to raise not only some sense of awareness, but also encourage some people to actually do something about what is going on in a specific part of the world that affects us all. yes! it shoudn’t have been bono’s job to be doing this. we put him there by voting for decades insensible leaders, believing in sugar coated advertisement, believing in our own arrogance rooted in historical ignorance. then get off your seats!!! and let bono be the last rock star to have to carry us out onto the battle field. let us be the crusaders by choosing better leaders, progressive leaders for once (nowhere to be found in any of the two political parties currently in charge). choose people who are not interested in the american dream but people who are interested in americans, and how americans can truely contribute to world stability.

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