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Date: 2016

Region: North America

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Installation, Public Art, Sculpture

Artist: Violeta Gomez

Confronting Bodies:Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

Dates of Action: June/July 2016

Location: Virginia Beach, VA

Description of Artwork: A temporary, crocheted covering for Paul DiPasquale’s original sculpture of King Neptune on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach. The work was commissioned by Virginia MOCA for its exhibition “Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose.” Olek and a team of volunteers fabricated the covering by hand.

The Incident: When Olek made a last minute decision to add a gas mask to Neptune's face- an overt motif intended to provoke thought about the man-made harm done to the environment—the museum took down the artwork. Olek, who creates large-scale crocheted (and sometimes controversial) artworks, added the gas mask to drive home the message that human pollution has put our oceans and the future of the planet in jeopardy. MOCA officials claim that the addition of the aluminum and rubber gas mask, a structural base for additional crochet, was a breach of Olek’s contract, which specifies the use of environmentally friendly and recycled materials as a symbolic “testament to [the artist’s] commitment to the health of our planet's water.”

Results of Incident: Despite NCAC's attempts to help Olek and the museum reach an agreement, the temporary sculpture was not reinstated.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BG36r1pBR4W/, OlekNYC: Did you know that about 70% of the word's oxygen come from the ocean?

Disagreement between city, MOCA and international artist strips King Neptune statue of artsy new look, By Denise M. Watson Jun 15, 2016

WHO IS THAT MASKED KING? OLEK AND VIRGINIA MOCA DISROBE NEPTUNE, June 18, 2016

NCAC Statement: The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art Falls Short of its Mission by Cancelling Site-Specific Installation about the Environment

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-====Region: [[:Category:Europe|Europe]]====
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-====Subject: [[:Category:Nudity|Nudity]] and [[:Category:Children|Children]]====
+====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]]====
-====Medium: [[:Photography|Photography]]====
+====Medium: [[:Installation|Installation]], [[:Public Art|Public Art]], [[:Sculpture|Sculpture]]====
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-[[File:Violeta Gomez2.jpg|right|thumb]]
+[[File:Olek-KingNeptune.jpg|right|thumb]]
 '''Artist:''' Violeta Gomez
-'''Confronting Bodies:'''
+'''Confronting Bodies:'''Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
-*Town Hall authorities
-*A Spanish Army officer from the Guardia Civil corps
-*Judge Concepcion Ferrer
-'''Dates of Action:''' October, 2001
+'''Dates of Action:''' June/July 2016
-'''Location:''' Museo de Siyasa, Cieza, Spain
+'''Location:''' Virginia Beach, VA
-'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Alicia en el pais del amor'' (Alice in Loveland) is a collection of photographic portraits of children, inspired by the photographic work of Lewis Carroll.
+'''Description of Artwork:''' A temporary, crocheted covering for Paul DiPasquale’s original sculpture of King Neptune on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach. The work was commissioned by Virginia MOCA for its exhibition “Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose.” Olek and a team of volunteers fabricated the covering by hand.
-'''The Incident:'''  In 2001, Violeta Gomez held an exhibition titled ''Alice in Loveland'' at the Museo de Siyasa, in Cieza (Spain). It consisted of a series of photographs of female children (aged 7 to 10), most of which had been previously exhibited at the near town of Molina de Segura a few months before. Some of the pictures featured nude or semi-nude children.
+'''The Incident:''' When Olek made a last minute decision to add a gas mask to Neptune's face- an overt motif intended to provoke thought about the man-made harm done to the environment—the museum took down the artwork. Olek, who creates large-scale crocheted (and sometimes controversial) artworks, added the gas mask to drive home the message that human pollution has put our oceans and the future of the planet in jeopardy. MOCA officials claim that the addition of the aluminum and rubber gas mask, a structural base for additional crochet, was a breach of Olek’s contract, which specifies the use of environmentally friendly and recycled materials as a symbolic “testament to [the artist’s] commitment to the health of our planet's water.”
-After 20 days, the exhibition was prematurely closed by the Town Hall authorities (owners of the museum) as a result of pressure by Judge Concepcion Ferrer following a report from a Spanish Army officer belonging to the Guardia Civil corps. Immediately after, the judge confiscated all the photographs and ordered a raid at Gomez's house, seizing all her prints and negatives, the exhibitions' leaflets, as well as her literary works, videotapes and some art books by well-known photographers such as Irina Ionescu or Yoji Ishikawa.
+'''Results of Incident:''' Despite NCAC's attempts to help Olek and the museum reach an agreement, the temporary sculpture was not reinstated.
-Gomez was charged with corruption of minors.
+'''Source:''' https://www.instagram.com/p/BG36r1pBR4W/, [https://www.instagram.com/p/BG36r1pBR4W/ OlekNYC: Did you know that about 70% of the word's oxygen come from the ocean?]
-'''Results of Incident:''' Gomez was not informed about the case development until March 2002, when only the videotapes (mostly movies recorded from the TV) were returned to her.  In October 2003 a new judge closed the procedure for lack of any evidence to support the charges in a court. In February 2004 Gomez received notification that the case had ended and her works and belongings were returned some days after. However, some pictures of the exhibition had major damages and many articles were lost: among them, some negatives and prints and the exhibitions' leaflets.
+[http://pilotonline.com/entertainment/arts/exhibits/disagreement-between-city-moca-and-international-artist-strips-king-neptune/article_fe6a5a86-d1e8-5d27-865d-073345402eb4.html Disagreement between city, MOCA and international artist strips King Neptune statue of artsy new look, By Denise M. Watson Jun 15, 2016]
-Many artists and intellectuals wrote a manifest vindicating Gomez's work and the right to free artistic expression. Artists Joan Fontcuberta and Albert Boadella also supported Gomez.
+[http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2016/06/18/who-is-that-masked-king-olek-and-virginia-moca-disrobe-neptune/#.V8h2xZMrLeT WHO IS THAT MASKED KING? OLEK AND VIRGINIA MOCA DISROBE NEPTUNE, June 18, 2016]
-'''Source:''' Violeta Gomez and http://www.artliberated.org/?id=17&p=cases
+[http://ncac.org/blog/photo-virginia-moca-removes-gas-mask-from-artists-makeover-statue NCAC Statement: The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art Falls Short of its Mission by Cancelling Site-Specific Installation about the Environment]
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