Loss and potential destruction of artworks created and placed in outdoor spaces in Paphos during its tenure as the European Capital of Culture in 2017 are being denounced by cultural bodies and stakeholders of the city.
The Cultural Movement ex-Artis, in a letter to the Paphos Municipality, accuses the municipal authority of irresponsibility, claiming that artworks are now missing with a visible risk that they may have already been destroyed.
The cultural movement, one of the most active components of Paphos 2017, argues that the Municipality itself acknowledges not having located sculptures that were relocated for renovation works, attributing to it a lack of care for the safety of these artworks.
Ex-Artis specifies the allegations by mentioning three sculptures that are now missing.
It concerns, it emphasizes, two works by Rinos Stefani, “The Saw” and “The Dancer”, as well as the artwork “Forêt Sacrée” by Herman Pit, created in light of Paphos’ function as the European Capital of Culture in 2017 and placed at points of cultural and archaeological interest with the approval of the Department of Antiquities and other competent services.
These artworks are missing and calls on the Paphos Municipality to locate and reposition them at the sites chosen by the curators and their creators.
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