- Culture: A mural of Banksy against Brexit disappears
A graffiti of the famous street artist Banksy painted in 2018 next to the Parisian Center Pompidou was stolen last weekend , the museum said Tuesday.
The work was on the back of the sign indicating the entrance to the Pompidou car park, in the heart of the French capital, and shortly after its appearance, on June 25, 2018, it was protected by the museum with a plastic plate.
Banksy, who claimed the work the next day through his Instagram account, represented his famous rat with a handkerchief covering his face and with a pen or a bomb in his hands.
The Pompidou lamented in a statement the robbery , which he placed on Saturday night last Sunday, while expressing his confidence that the video surveillance images of the museum can contribute to "identify the authors" and clarify the circumstances of the same. The museum said it has filed a complaint for "theft and destruction" in its perimeter.
He recalled that the work was conceived by Banksy as a tribute to the student demonstrations of May 1968 , of which half a century was completed last year. In his claim text, the Bristol artist said: "Fifty years after the 1968 uprisings in Paris. The cradle of stencil art."
The Pompidou, dedicated to contemporary art, recalled that graffiti is among its centers of interest , as evidenced by the work commissioned by the artists Lek & Sowat, from that discipline, in the framework of the remodeling of the center.
Paris contains a dozen street works by the famous British artist born in 1974.
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