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An attack suffered this week the characteristic mosaic in homage to Pedro Lemebel from Santiago Centro, located on Nataniel Cox street with Tarapacá, which was destroyed with hammer blows by two passers-by.
The fact was made known through social networks, where a user viralized a video where you can see two subjects hitting and crushing the image in broad daylight.
🔴 You can destroy a Mosaic, but your work will remain forever !!! It bothers them both that an artist and #Lemebel be honored? #mosaic #Pedrolemebel #gomiedotorero #Chile #VTRChile #alfredocastro @AlfredoACastro @Rayenaraya pic.twitter.com/MowVaK8Nmf
– cavabpe (@carabpe) September 17, 2020
Today, at a press point, the mayor of the commune Felipe Alessandri he referred to the act of vandalism and compromised the efforts of the municipality to recover the mosaic.
“Our cameras already have images, we are seeing with the Prosecutor’s Office and the important thing is to recover this memorial, this mosaic that is so important, highly valued by the community,” he said.
The attack coincides with the massive success of I’m scared bullfighter, a local film that last weekend brought together more than 100,000 people for its first two online screenings.
The work belongs to Musa Collective, a group that has been characterized by intervening in the city through mosaics that rescue various figures from memory and popular culture.
Isabel gonzalez, a member of the group, assures that the municipality has not yet contacted them to collect data on the damage to the work or its eventual recovery.
“We want these cases not to go unpunished, because the people who attacked the mosaic are identified. We are organizing ourselves ”, he told BioBioChile.
According to González, this is not the first time that vandalism groups have attacked monoliths or urban memorials, which is why they have already made contact with other affected artists.
For now, the group intends to leave -at least a few days- the mural as it is, as a testimonial record of the violence of which it was a victim.
“Then we want to restore it again, to make another one perhaps, I don’t know. We’ll see later”, predicts González.
One of the most recent interventions by the Musa Collective was a mosaic in homage to Rodrigo Rojas De Negri in Valparaíso, one of the victims of the “Burned Case”. They have also paid visual tributes to the journalist Lenka Franulic in the Municipal Theater of Antofagasta already Violeta Parra in Lastarria street (Santiago).
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