Anish Kapoor's controversial Dirty Corner vandalised again
- 9 years ago
British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor’s controversial “Dirty Corner” installation has been vandalised for the second time in three months.
Une œuvre d’#AnishKapoor vandalisée : “acte d’une violence intolérable” catherinepegard pic.twitter.com/4toVt3YrVB— ChateaudeVersailles (CVersailles) September 6, 2015
(An Anish Kapoor work is vandalised: “an act of intolerable violence.”)
A series of sentences, some anti-Semitic, were painted on the abstract sculpture, which stands in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, near the French capital.
Des tags antisémites sur la sculpture d’Anish Kapoor à Versailles http://t.co/aFnDnjRAP0 pic.twitter.com/K2uzqcqUXA— RFI (@RFI) September 6, 2015
The piece is known informally as “the vagina of the queen, coming into power.” Kapoor has described the steel funnel comprising part of his work as “very sexual,” however there is no clear link between the piece and the anti-Semitic graffiti.
France’s Culture Minister, Fleur Pellerin, condemned the
Une œuvre d’#AnishKapoor vandalisée : “acte d’une violence intolérable” catherinepegard pic.twitter.com/4toVt3YrVB— ChateaudeVersailles (CVersailles) September 6, 2015
(An Anish Kapoor work is vandalised: “an act of intolerable violence.”)
A series of sentences, some anti-Semitic, were painted on the abstract sculpture, which stands in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, near the French capital.
Des tags antisémites sur la sculpture d’Anish Kapoor à Versailles http://t.co/aFnDnjRAP0 pic.twitter.com/K2uzqcqUXA— RFI (@RFI) September 6, 2015
The piece is known informally as “the vagina of the queen, coming into power.” Kapoor has described the steel funnel comprising part of his work as “very sexual,” however there is no clear link between the piece and the anti-Semitic graffiti.
France’s Culture Minister, Fleur Pellerin, condemned the