The Pompidou Centre in Paris is refusing to take the blame after two art works on loan from the United States were destroyed when they fell from the museum's walls.
The works were part of the exhibit Los Angeles 1955-1985.
"These two works were made of the same materials, and made in the same period. And both were incredibly fragile," Catherine Grenier, who curated the show for the Pompidou, told the Los Angeles Times.
Untitled Wall Relief, a 1967 work of acrylic laquer and Plexiglas by Craig Kauffman, fell and shattered just before the show closed. The other piece, a black resin work by Peter Alexander and let out by a gallery in New York, fell overnight just days before the show opened in March.
Officials at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which owned the Kauffman work, have expressed dismay and bafflement at how it could have occurred.
"It's extremely upsetting," said LACMA director Michael Govan, who added his organization is investigating what happened.
2 comments:
if they were that fragil why were they on the wall and not in a case? sic em usa, sic em..
This was in France , the cases were being used for onions
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