The controversial work, exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, was degraded on Sunday afternoon, when part of the painting was sprayed with burgundy paint.
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The man suspected of having defaced the work “Fuck Abstraction!” by Miriam Cahn, exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Sunday May 7, is a former elected member of the National Front (former name of the National Rally), learned franceinfo from concordant sources, confirming information from the World. Until 2015, Pierre Chassin was elected municipal FN in Mureaux (Yvelines) and community councilor. The 80-year-old man was taken into police custody on Sunday for “degradation of exposed cultural property”, according to a source familiar with the matter at France Inter.
A controversial work
Without naming him, the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, protested on Twitter that“a former FN elected official attacks the work after your party’s smear campaign”speaking to Marine Le Pen. “Nothing has changed since the National Front!”
The work “Fuck Abstraction!” was defaced on Sunday afternoon when part of the painting was sprayed with burgundy paint, concealed in a medicine bottle. The work of the Swiss artist, exhibited since mid-February by the Parisian contemporary art center, was at the center of a controversy. The canvas depicts a person with their hands tied, forced into oral sex by a faceless, powerful 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.
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