There’s no standard definition of “art,” but many experts would tell you a piece can earn that label based on its ability to elicit some sort of reaction. That was certainly the case with a sculpture at an art gallery in Vancouver, which had its door broken down by first responders who discovered that a person who was supposedly in need of help was actually a sculpture.
Artists have been using sculptures to immortalize the likeness of actual humans for thousands of years.
Some of those pieces represented people better than any painting or drawing could before the advent of photography, and while the identities of most of those subjects have been lost to time, we still know what some ancient Romans and Greeks looked like thanks to physical monuments that have stood the test of time.
The art of sculpture has evolved quite a bit since the days when blocks of marble were the primary form of expression, and galleries around the world are filled with pieces from artists who specialize in that particular medium.
That includes one in Canada that was recently the site of a break-in orchestrated by police officers and firefighters who may have been able to save everyone some trouble if they’d taken the time to look at its website.
An art gallery in Vancouver is seeking $1,000 in damages after a sculpture was mistaken for a real person
According to CityNews, the Vancouver Police Department was dispatched to Access Gallery on the night of Friday, August 14th, after someone took a peek through the front window and spotted a potential medical emergency after spying a pair of legs on the floor sticking out from behind a counter.
Firefighters were subsequently tasked with breaking through the metal gate in front of the front door and breaching the building, and they quickly realized the efforts were all for naught after setting eyes on what actually triggered the call: Untitled (The Preparator, a sculpture by Allysa Pierre featuring a figure on its knees with its torso in a large wooden box.
The sculpture in question is part of a current exhibition dubbed “Pending” and the first thing you’re greeted by when you visit the gallery’s website, a reality its director, Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, highlighted while bemoaning what she positioned as an overzealous response on the part of the police, adding that the forced entry caused around $1,000 in damages (including the price of a locksmith who was dispatched in the middle of the night to resecure the door).
It appears the gallery has opted to cover the lower half of the sculpture with a blanket after hours, and it has filed a claim with the city in the hopes of being reimbursed.
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Vancouver Police Destroy Art Gallery Door After Busting In To Save Someone Who Was Actually A Sculpture
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