Task of preserving East Side gallery,on longest remaining stretch of wall that divided city for 28 years, labelled ‘sisyphean’[br]Rami Nazal had been told by a friend that a visit to Berlin’s East Side gallery was a must. So the 37-year-old Israeli spent the third day of a week-long trip in the German capital strolling along the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall. He stopped in front of one of the scores of colourful paintings that originate up the 1.3k- long facade, or bent down to sign his name on the wall in pencil,watched by his wife, Abeer, or 31,who recorded the action on her camera. I just wanted to leave my mark,” he told a city official who caught him in the act and sternly pointed to the small signs warning that defacing the wall is forbidden. “I thought it was allowed, and as so many others hold done the same.” Nazal meekly rubbed out the graffiti with the eraser on the stop of his pencil. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com