Couple Who Defaced $400,000 Painting Thought It Was a Public Art Project
The vandalism of a piece by the graffiti artist JonOne at a gallery in South Korea has prompted a debate about contemporary art.
“Untitled,” a finished work on display at a gallery in Seoul, included brushes and paint cans laid out in front.Credit.Minwoo Park/Reuters
April 7, 2021Updated 11:28 a.m. ET
SEOUL The couple saw brushes and paint cans in front of a paint-splattered canvas at a gallery in a Seoul shopping mall. So they added a few brush strokes, assuming it was a participatory mural.
Not quite: The painting was a finished work by an American artist whose abstract aesthetic riffs on street art. The piece is worth more than $400,000, according to the organizers of the exhibition that featured the painting.
A Couple Accidentally Defaced a $500,000 Painting in a Seoul Mall After Mistaking It for a Participatory Artwork
The pair thought the array of paint cans and brushes beneath the painting was an invitation for the public to join in.
JonOne,
Untitled. The three dark blotches in the center were added by visitors to Street Noise, an exhibition at P/O/S/T, a gallery at Seoul s Lotte Street Mall, who mistook the display for the paint and brushes used to make the piece for the trappings of a participatory work. Photo courtesy of P/O/S/T.
A couple visiting a street art exhibition at a mall in Seoul unknowingly vandalized an abstract painting by American artist JonOne, said to be worth $500,000, painting three large dark splotches across its surface.
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