C215 Artwork Stolen from Electrical Panel
3/27/09
Got an email from C215 this morning about a piece of artwork that was stolen. The piece was put out in the public arena, so it could be argued that it was free game, but the problem is that too many people try to exploit the public arena to make a dime.
C215 says "Hi if someone see this piece in a gallery, an auction or by someone, I would be really happy to be informed. If you want to help, you could also put this on your blogs, this would be fine to deprive these people to sell the piece. My request is simple : Please let art in the streets... "
Seems a pity to rob the blight of the urban landscape of something that is so beautiful.
Here is another blog entry about it: http://samarrainelafee.blogspot.com/2009/03/le-voleur-des-rues.html
C215 says "Hi if someone see this piece in a gallery, an auction or by someone, I would be really happy to be informed. If you want to help, you could also put this on your blogs, this would be fine to deprive these people to sell the piece. My request is simple : Please let art in the streets... "
Seems a pity to rob the blight of the urban landscape of something that is so beautiful.
Here is another blog entry about it: http://samarrainelafee.blogspot.com/2009/03/le-voleur-des-rues.html
posted by workhorse at 7:36 AM
1 Comments:
Hmmmm... yeah in theory this work was free game. But that's the operative word here: FREE. Most street artists have a gallery practice to some extent ( if they don't want to work an unrelated job, or at least to cover materials) so the nice thing about street work is that it's separate from all the commercial interests, plus less about ownership and more about creating an interesting dialogue between your work and a potentially non-gallery going audience. So it's a little disappointing when someone treats this particular work as an object that requires ownership.
I suppose we don't really know whether the person who took it intends to sell it or not. But actually I have a friend in Amsterdam who paid some builders to reserve her a Faile Collective piece that was painted on some construction walls, and yes, the whole thing made me uneasy, because even though she wasn't going to sell it or make money from it in any way, I still felt like it was a bit of an affront to the artists, who put that piece on the streets for everyone.
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