“I’m ready to be scourged” is the title of Jago’s work destroyed on the night of 5 October in Rome: it portrays a shipwrecked man lying on his side, it had been placed on the Sant’Angelo bridge. The artist has published a few seconds video on his Instagram profile in which three people, apparently very young, can be seen lifting the statue. Then seven other people, visible in another video delivered by the Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage to the local police, destroyed the work just a few hours later: the legs of the sculpture had been broken and the hand was not found.
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“Lucky there were cameras otherwise we would have missed this group performance,” wrote Jago, stage name for Jacopo Cardillo. The sculpture had already been damaged on August 6, the day after it was installed. The vandals shown in the video are currently still anonymous, that evening they managed to escape from the traffic police. The statue was definitively removed and returned to the artist on November 7 to restore it: it had also become dangerous due to the sharp edges caused by vandalism. The sculpture will be auctioned: starting point 1 million and 250 thousand euros, with the entire proceeds that will be donated to an association in support of refugees.
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