A Cleveland artist who filed a lawsuit last week over the destruction of an artwork intended to act as a 50-year time capsule in Ohio City said construction workers rebuffed him last year when he asked why they were mistreating the work.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland artist who filed a lawsuit on February 14 over the destruction of an artwork intended to act as a 50-year time capsule in Ohio City said construction workers rebuffed him last year when he asked why they were mistreating the work.
“I drove to the construction site, and there were many workers,’’ and saw that the work was covered by construction materials, Naji said Monday in an interview with“I was kind of hurt by it,’’ he said. “It was sort of disrespectful, like somebody leaning something against your house. “They even put a tire on top of it, like making a joke of it.”
The sculpture had been bolted through its base to a concrete anchor with four long threaded bolts. Naji said he guessed that the contractors had tried to remove it using straps and a forklift. “They destroyed a piece of public art that he [Naji] owned and had absolutely no right to destroy and it was entirely unnecessary and it’s tragic,’’ said Naji’s lawyer, Susannah Muskovitz. “Why did they have to destroy it? Why did no one contact the artist, who knew how it could have been moved nondestructively?”
Tony Panzica, CEO of Panzica Construction Co., said: “I really don’t know anything other than we just got the suit. There’s nothing else I can say until we figure out what’s going on here.”Born in New York in 1957, Naji earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has participated in local and regional exhibitions.
Cleveland’s nonprofit CAN Journal said on its website that the work gained attention from newspapers across the U.S.
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