Anish Kapoor’s work vandalized: the anti-Semitic insults are not withdrawn – Le Point

The large sculpture Dirty Corner of the artist Anish Kapoor installed in the gardens of Versailles was again vandalized Sunday morning, the President announced the establishment Catherine Pégard, which says “outraged.” This work, a steel trunk to the obvious sexual connotations, already vandalized in June, was covered with inscriptions in white paint, said the institution: “The Queen sacrificed twice outraged,” “Bloody Sacrifice SS “,” the second of the Nation by RAPE activism JEWISH DEVIANT “.

However, Anish Kapoor told the Le Figaro that anti-Semitic insults written on his work” Dirty Corner “would not be removed now because” these infamous words are part “of it. “In the first breakdown, I was already wondering about the merits of a cleaning (note: the work was finally cleaned). This time, I am convinced that nothing should withdraw from these insults, these very words to anti-Semitism that we would soon forget, “he said.

President Francois Hollande denounced “strongly” Sunday degradation of Anish Kapoor sculpture at Versailles, expressing “its solidarity” to the artist. “The President of the Republic strongly condemns the deterioration of the work of Anish Kapoor, installed in the garden of Versailles, which was covered with hateful and anti-Semitic graffiti,” said the Elysee in a statement.

A skilled “very sexual”

“This act of intolerable violence against the work of an international artist shocks me and saddens me,” said Catherine Pégard , came to see the damage. “I am outraged that would harm the most abominable with references to the work of a great international artist and, beyond, the Palace of Versailles and the culture,” she said. “It is for the public establishment of Versailles an act of great seriousness that the public condemns his side indignantly,” she assured.

Located in the center main park, the green rug, Dirty Corner (“dirty area”), is a rusty steel tunnel 60 meters long which opens towards the castle by a kind of trompe , described as “very sexual” by Kapoor. It is surrounded by excavations and huge blocks of stone, some painted red blood.