The trial of the French artist ‘Invader’ and the previous director of the Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Fernando Francés, for putting works by the French creator with out authorization in buildings declared as Assets of Cultural Interest (BIC) begins this week in Malaga ) of the Malaga capital.
This has been confirmed to Europa Press by judicial sources, who’ve identified that the trial is scheduled to happen on July 12 and 13. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses each defendants of an alleged crime in opposition to historic heritage on a steady foundation, ‘Invader’ because the alleged perpetrator and Fernando Francés because the alleged inducer and requests a high quality of fifty euros per day for twenty-four months for every of them, that’s, the fee of 36,000 euros.
The occasions date again to May 2017, when the location or ‘invasion’ came about in a number of buildings in Malaga, which is how this French artist defines the set up of his works in numerous cities. In whole, there have been 15 mosaics made up of tiles that had been positioned with out authorization each on the partitions and on the facades of buildings, such because the Episcopal Palace and that of Salinas, that are protected and, supposedly, with out administrative authorization or from the property house owners.
Damage resulting from alteration within the facades
The Prosecutor’s Office has been sustaining that the works had been put in in buildings positioned throughout the sector delimited as BIC, registered within the Andalusian Heritage Catalog, and that the fabric used to position them precipitated an alleged “injury resulting from alteration of the facades”.
The solely report is that authorization was requested in a single case by means of an electronic mail from a CAC account, a request that was denied by the property, though the mosaic was positioned, in accordance with the prosecutor’s workplace in its provisional indictment.
For the prosecution, the ‘invasion’ was allegedly “proposed” by Francés. In addition to having the help and being programmed by him, since he met with Invader in Paris on the finish of 2015 presumably to suggest the motion and invite him to go to Malaga to decide on the locations. The artist made a primary go to within the spring of 2016 after which there was one in 2017 to position the works.
In addition to the high quality, the prosecutor requests as compensation that each defendants pay the house owners of the affected buildings the prices of eradicating the mosaics and repairing the facades, which might quantity to round 7,800 euros as a forecast value.
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