2018 - Romania - Bucharest - The Memorial of Rebirth - 2 of 2
The Memorial of Rebirth (Memorialul Renaşterii in Romanian) commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism.
The memorial complex was inaugurated in August 2005 in Revolution Square, where Romania's Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was publicly overthrown.
In 2012 the monument was defaced with a splash of bright red paint delivered just at the bottom of the monument's "potato" by an unknown person. This caused the monument to look as though it is bleeding. The paint is so inaccessibly high that it has remained in place.
The memorial, designed by Alexandru Ghilduş, features as its centrepiece a 25-metre-high marble pillar reaching up to the sky, upon which a metal "crown" was placed.
The pillar is surrounded by a 600 m² plaza covered by marble and granite. On its south side there is a Memory Wall with 1,058 names of innocent Romanians killed during the rebellion.
The memorial cost 5.6 million lei (RON 5.6 million, ROL 56 billion, approximately €1.5 million). Its initial name was "Eternal Glory to the Heroes and the Romanian Revolution of December 1989" (Glorie Eternă Eroilor şi Revoluţiei Române din Decembrie 1989). The memorial's name alludes to Romania's rebirth as a nation after the collapse of Communism.
Owing to its relative unpopularity, the monument is vandalized on a regular basis - it is rather ugly.
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Permission to use photo.
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10 Mar 2019.
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Hello mister Ted McGrath,
I am the street artist who put the red paint on the monument and after all these years I want to make it public for the first time in a exhibition, in Paris.
Searching on internet about this, I found your flickr account with the pictures you made and I like them so much. I am writing you to ask if is possible to use them in the exhibition for a print, of course you will have all the credits for the pictures presented. I case you accept my proposal, please let me know, how should I write the photo credits. :D
Here is a link with some of my works:
spark.adobe.com/page/gxUsTsGruDlg3/
Looking forward to hearing from you, the exhibition is on 14 march.
best regards,
Kero
2018 - Romania - Bucharest - The Memorial of Rebirth - 2 of 2
The Memorial of Rebirth (Memorialul Renaşterii in Romanian) commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism.
The memorial complex was inaugurated in August 2005 in Revolution Square, where Romania's Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was publicly overthrown.
In 2012 the monument was defaced with a splash of bright red paint delivered just at the bottom of the monument's "potato" by an unknown person. This caused the monument to look as though it is bleeding. The paint is so inaccessibly high that it has remained in place.
The memorial, designed by Alexandru Ghilduş, features as its centrepiece a 25-metre-high marble pillar reaching up to the sky, upon which a metal "crown" was placed.
The pillar is surrounded by a 600 m² plaza covered by marble and granite. On its south side there is a Memory Wall with 1,058 names of innocent Romanians killed during the rebellion.
The memorial cost 5.6 million lei (RON 5.6 million, ROL 56 billion, approximately €1.5 million). Its initial name was "Eternal Glory to the Heroes and the Romanian Revolution of December 1989" (Glorie Eternă Eroilor şi Revoluţiei Române din Decembrie 1989). The memorial's name alludes to Romania's rebirth as a nation after the collapse of Communism.
Owing to its relative unpopularity, the monument is vandalized on a regular basis - it is rather ugly.
.
Permission to use photo.
.
10 Mar 2019.
.
Hello mister Ted McGrath,
I am the street artist who put the red paint on the monument and after all these years I want to make it public for the first time in a exhibition, in Paris.
Searching on internet about this, I found your flickr account with the pictures you made and I like them so much. I am writing you to ask if is possible to use them in the exhibition for a print, of course you will have all the credits for the pictures presented. I case you accept my proposal, please let me know, how should I write the photo credits. :D
Here is a link with some of my works:
spark.adobe.com/page/gxUsTsGruDlg3/
Looking forward to hearing from you, the exhibition is on 14 march.
best regards,
Kero