“I have to clean this work every week.
It takes me one and half hour. The children they play on it.
They climb up, you see these marks are made by their shoes. They hang off the legs for a photograph. The manager tells them off but they take no notice.
I clean all the artworks. I like them very much, they are the creation of human beings.”
Public art: Silence by Adrian Mauriks 2002
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The moral of the story is don’t make public art that attracts kids.
or maybe they could take off their shoes.
The children’s attraction is a proof that the art is successful as the creation of human beings. Art is for human, though, especially public art. Let’s give a good strength for the cleaner.
I think it is great to have artwork that children can actually climb upon, rather than have it shut away behind barricades.
Pity the insurance people don’t see it the same way.