"Fuck abstraction" is definitely spilling a lot of ink, and up to the Elysee. This painting of the Palais de Tokyo, accused of encouraging child pornography and vandalized Sunday, received support from the head of state himself.
"On this 8 May, when we celebrate the victory of freedom, I condemn the act of vandalism committed yesterday at the Palais de Tokyo. To attack a work is to attack our values. In France, art is always free and respect for cultural creation is guaranteed," Macron tweeted.
Depiction of rape as a weapon of war
In this work of the Parisian museum made by Miriam Cahn, we can see, bathed in a certain vagueness, a muscular and tall man imposing a to a much smaller character, and holding the head of another, both having their hands tied. For his detractors, the victim is a child, which the artist denies, invoking the representation of rape as a weapon of war and crime against humanity.
On Sunday afternoon, a man described as elderly by a source close to the case projected purple paint on this painting, "unhappy with the sexual staging of a child and an adult represented according to him", without being part of an activist group. On the same day, the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, denounced the "instrumentalization" of this case by the National Rally "to stir up controversy and attack the creative freedom of artists" and without which, according to her, "we would certainly not have reached this point".
The Palais de Tokyo said it would file a complaint and continue "to present the painting and the exhibition", which attracted 80,000 visitors, "with traces of the degradation until the scheduled end of the season, on May 14".
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