2023-05-09 00:03:59
On May 7, a man threw paint on Fuck Abstraction! a work by Miriam Cahn, exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo. WikiCommons
On Sunday, a man threw paint on Fuck Abstraction!a work by Miriam Cahn, considered by associations as child pornography.
Emmanuel Macron to «sentenced” Monday “the act of vandalism“Occurred the day before at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where the controversial work of Miriam Cahn was sprayed with paint by an individual who acted alone, the president denouncing an attack”to our values». «On this May 8, when we celebrate the victory of freedom, I condemn the act of vandalism committed yesterday at the Palais de Tokyo“Tweeted the head of state, who was to pay tribute to Jean Moulin and the Resistance, Monday in Lyon, after the traditional Victory ceremony against Nazi Germany at the Arc de Triomphe.
«To attack a work is to attack our values. In France, art is always free and respect for cultural creation is guaranteed.added the president. Title Fuck abstraction !, the work of the Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, exhibited since mid-February by the Parisian contemporary art center, represents a person with tied hands, forced to perform oral sex by a powerful faceless man. For his detractors, the victim is a child, which the artist denies, invoking the representation of rape as a weapon of war and a crime against humanity.
On Sunday afternoon, a man described as elderly by a source familiar with the matter sprayed purple paint on this painting, “dissatisfied with the sexual staging of a child and an adult represented according to himwithout being part of an activist group. The individual, arrested on Sunday, would be a former elected member of the National Front, advances AFP, confirming information from the Monde. The Paris prosecutor’s office has simply announced the opening of an investigation for degradation of exposed cultural property.
An exhibition that attracted 80,000 visitors
The world identified the suspect as Pierre Chassin, former head of the National Front group on the municipal council of Mureaux (Yvelines). Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak, who had already denounced on Sunday “the instrumentalization” of this affair by the National Rally, took the opportunity on Monday to challenge Marine Le Pen on Twitter. “A former FN elected official attacks the work of Miriam Cahn after your party’s smear campaign”launched the minister who had been questioned on the subject by the deputy RN Caroline Parmentier in March. “And while justice has recognized that this painting, which denounces the horrors of war, can be exhibited. Definitely @MLP_officiel (Marine Le Pen’s account, editor’s note)nothing has changed since the National Front!”she was indignant.
The Palais de Tokyo, for its part, specified that it would lodge a complaint and would continue “to present the painting and the exhibition“, which attracted 80,000 visitors, “with traces of degradation until the scheduled end of the season, May 14“. The associations Lawyers for Childhood, Childhood in Sharing, Facing Incest and Innocence in Danger, considering child pornography, demanded its removal but were dismissed in the spring by the Paris Administrative Court and then by the Council of State.
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