Breaking News: "eyephoneography" exhibition hit by mindless vandalism
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 9:35PM | Glyn Evans 
The eyephoneography exhibition that opened its doors to the public last Friday, the 17th of September, at The Hub in Madrid, Spain, has been suspended due to the mindless acts of so called artists.
Information is a little limited due to legal reasons, but the following statement has been posted on the eyephoneography website.
"the eyephoneography #1 show has now been suspended. It was supposed to last until October 1st, but the 48 exhibited images that had attracted so much interest in the past days were torn down by some people of the HUB-Madrid."
Following questions about what had happened, the eyephoneography organizers have posted the following statement.
"Here are some facts. We knew that in the two weeks of the exhibit (17/9-1/10) some events would have taken place during the evenings (when the HUB is closed to the public) . The photos could stay if the organizers of the other events agreed and we were to take them down if they didn't. We also had the option of re-installing them once the evening event was over. We had already obtained agreements for the Monday 20/9 and Thurs 23/9 events but those organizing the event on Wed 22/9 wanted them down. We had until 7:00 pm of 21/9 to take down the show. For the morning we had arranged some important meetings with the director of PhotoEspana, the curator of photography of the FNAC Spain, and a curator of the Reina Sofia Museum. We would say that considering also the exposure on the cultural pages of "El Mundo" and "La Repubblica" two of the most read newspapers in Spain and Italy, and all the other agencies and art magazines that you can see in the right column of this blog, mobile photography never had that kind of exposure before in the art world.
Anyway we had already arranged to take down the images after the meetings to re-install them the day after.
However, all the photos were torn off in the morning and we had to cancel the meetings. No calls, no emails, no messages. The images had been mounted naked full bleed on 3mm dibond. Imagine how delicate they were. We found them piled up on a table like trash. Smudges, scratches, some attached with double-face tape one on top of other. A real tragedy."
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Reader Comments (9)
Wow, crazy to thing that someone at the place that was hosting the event ripped them off the wall. Surly they know who is responsible for taking them down, no?
This is a real shame. Sounds like a mis-communication here, very sad! (FlickrFitzy)
That is really insane.
HUB seems to promote itself as a communal event space for artists and professionals at reasonable prices.
I can't understand how photos on the wall would interfere with an event other than another art exhibit.
It seems to be a pure lack of respect by the HUB staff and their event customers.
I agree, there was a miscommunication somewhere along the line but that's no excuse for damaging works of art.
I'll never understand vandalism. To see art purposely destroyed is sickening.
This is horribly sad! Why would someone do this?
Unbelievable. How disrespectful, rude and stupid. I really feel for the artists and the organizers who spent a lot of time energy and money on this...
This is crazy! :( How can anyone, specially arts people, do this? Are they arrested? They must be because this is amazingly rude and stupid!
Juts one thing clear for me... won't be working with HUB Madrid !!!
I guess they dont like the idea of mobile photography to be considered art. Lets see what happens.