There is a lack of respect for art and culture: the attack on an art installation by Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova in a former chapel in front of the Linz Open Cultural Center is not an isolated incident. An installation in the Mariendom of Linz was also destroyed.
“Maybe someone just wanted to be ‘funny’,” cathedral master Clemens Pichler speculates: During a sound installation for Anton Bruckner’s E minor Mass in the crypt of the new cathedral, the fine wires connecting floating golden balls became tangled. Since then, the artwork has been damaged beyond repair.
The dom master obviously does not believe that the damage was done with malicious intent: “It is enough to grab one ball and let it go. The threads are so fragile that they were impossible to untangle.”
Madonna was beheaded
The image of the Madonna giving birth, which was beheaded in St. Mary’s Cathedral on June 1, fared much worse. Two suspects, a man from Linz (73) and a man from Vienna (31), are still being investigated, the Linz Public Prosecutor’s Office reported upon request. The man from Linz had behaved suspiciously, the man from Vienna had eagerly posted relevant information. But the duo had no contact with each other. It remains to be seen who will actually have to answer to court.
Splinters dripped down the décolleté
It was a stone used to break the glass door of the former Marienkapelle on OK-Platz in Linz. Splinters dripped down the cleavage of sex dolls that Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova displayed as part of her major exhibition at the OK. The glass floor of the showroom was also destroyed. According to Landes-Kultur GmbH (OÖ LKG), a report has been filed against unknown persons.
No coincidence
The artist believes that the time of the vandalism was not chosen by chance; it happened on the eve of Mary’s conception, “a symbolic date.” The group of statues was not seriously damaged, is temporarily in the OR and will return to its original location as soon as possible. The chapel was desecrated more than ten years ago and has been a space for art ever since.
Source: Krone
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