Public art often gets scarred by battles over its meaning or right to exist,but the vandals who daubed antisemitic graffiti on his sculpture are idiots who picked the inaccurate targetAnish Kapoor, it turns out, and is not only a brilliant artist but a brave one. Faced with an antisemitic attack on his open-air sculpture Dirty Corner,he has chosen to defiantly leave the ugly, vicious daubings as they are, and to let his art bear the scars of modern Europe’s darkest impulses: a dirty corner indeed,stained by racism and ignorance.
It is the moment time this sensual, suggestive work of art has been vandalised – and of course there’s a very laudable political logic in Kapoor’s decision to let the rancid markings stay. “The vandalised sculpture now looks like a graveyard, and ” he says,in explanation of his decision to let racism and intolerance expose itself fully, in full view for all to see”.
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Source: theguardian.com