#maximo caminero

[dominicanartblog]

Landscape (Paisaje), by Maximo Caminero

[culturame]

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Perez Museum, Miami - La “performance”, del 16 febbraio scorso,  è di un artista dominicano di nome Maximo Caminero.

L’artista dominicano durante una visita guidata, si è avvicinato all’opera “According to What?” di Ai Weiwei, ha sollevato un vaso e lasciandolo cadere a terra lo ha ridotto in frantumi.

L’artista, successivamente all’arresto, ha dichiarato di aver commesso il gesto in segno di protesta nei confronti del museo che, a suo dire, ospita e promuove solo arte e artisti extra-statunitensi.

Caminero ora rischia 5 anni di carcere per aver rotto un vaso del valore di un milione di dollari.

Distrugge un’opera di Ai Weiwei per protesta Perez Museum, Miami - La "performance", del 16 febbraio scorso,  è di un artista dominicano di nome Maximo Caminero.

[robertjstevens]

Maximo Caminero smashes an Ai WeiWei vase at Perez Art Museum Miami.

[newsdock]

Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief and faces up to five years in prison following Sunday's destruction of the artwork valued at $1m (£600,000), on show at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. The Florida artist said he had smashed the vase to protest at the institution's lack of displays of local work. Caminero had been quoted as saying it was a spontaneous protest after seeing the photos of Ai breaking an ancient Chinese vase. Source: Sky News

[hyperallergic]

Ai Weiwei Responds to Vase Dropper

A GIF version of unverified video footage found by the BBC of Caminero dropping the Ai vase (GIF by Hrag Vartanian for Hyperallergic)

In his first remarks since local artist Maximo Caminero smashed a vase in one of his artworks on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Ai Weiwei told the Associated Press that he doesn’t understand or agree with the vandal’s actions. ”Damaging other people’s…

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[mrmallard]

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million vase at Miami's new art museum in what appears to be a form of protest.

Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief after Sunday's incident at the Perez Art Museum Miami. According to a Miami Police Department arrest affidavit, a security guard told officers that Caminero picked up a colored vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. When told to put it down, the security guard said Caminero smashed it on the floor.

A police affidavit says Caminero told officers he broke the vase to protest the museum's lack of local artist displays.

Okay, this stresses me out SO MUCH. Ai Weiwei's works were old chinese pots, some said to be around 2000 years old, which he painted bright pastel colors as a part of an exhibition. He himself deliberately broke one of the pots, and there were photos at the exhibition of him doing this.

So this other guy comes in, angry that the museum is focused more on international artists, and decides that he'll do what Ai Weiwei did - he'll take a priceless pot and SMASH IT ON THE FLOOR.

I'm already pretty mad at Ai Weiwei for that initial destruction, and though I guess I should be mad at what he's done to these pots in the first place, I understand artistic appropriation and that the exhibition was meant to be controversial, adding a "modern" touch on a legitimate piece of art made around 2 millenniums ago. But what pisses me off the most is that this ONE GUY went up and DESTROYED ANOTHER ARTIST'S PIECE OF WORK. That is an UNBELIEVABLY shitty thing to do.

I don't care about the motives - the museum's selection of artwork is up to them, and this guy could have made a complaint, made a piece to protest, made a statement about this - but instead, he actually destroys another artist's piece of work because he's pissed off at the museum housing it. What a fucking child. How dare he.

[guardian]

$1m Ai Weiwei vase smashed by protester in Miami art gallery – video

A man is filmed picking up and smashing a vase by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei worth $1m (£600,000). Florida artist Maximo Caminero, 51, was later arrested and admits to breaking the work in protest at the Perez Art Gallery in Miami only showing international art. Caminero now faces up to five years in prison for criminal mischief. Watch

[newsdock]

Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief and faces up to five years in prison following Sunday's destruction of the artwork valued at $1m (£600,000), on show at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. The Florida artist said he had smashed the vase to protest at the institution's lack of displays of local work. Caminero had been quoted as saying it was a spontaneous protest after seeing the photos of Ai breaking an ancient Chinese vase. "I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei to join him in an act of performance protest," he said. Source: Sky News