The Art Installation 'Brücke/Ponte/Köprü/Bridge' by Italian artist Angelo Loconte K. and partners in Kunsthaus Tacheles has been destroyed by the security of the investors with the help of police on 9th of August 2011.
‘BEING CANNOT DIE!
'IT
IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DESTROY AN IDEA!’
Today, on 9 August 2011, approximately 50 security guards
attacked the Sculpture Park in Kunsthaus Tacheles at around 5 o’clock in the
morning. In cooperation with police forces, they have illegally destroyed the art
installation by the Italian artist Angelo Loconte and his team without any permission
from the court. Three months ago the same security forces built a wall in the
middle of Kunsthause Tacheles to cut it off from the public. The art
installation ‘Brücke/ Ponte/ Köprü/Bridge’ was an artistic action and an
expression of resistance to those who violate the freedom of public space, art,
and thought. As documented by the
artists in the photos below, security broke
the art installation and stole all the remaining material, worth thousands of
Euros. Speechless and shocked by this
brutality, vandalism and destruction, we are greatly disappointed that police
forces, instead of protecting our property and rights, helped the illegal intrusion.
Beyond the conflict between the artists of Tacheles and private investors, one
question arises: Through what injustice does Berlin allow art to be destroyed?
We hereby declare that we will follow every means to seek
our legal rights and to save Tacheles.
Tacheles will stay a free art house!
