Handspringing Protester Damages Artwork At Exhibition With Nazi Ties

[matcom]

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BERLIN -- A woman doing handsprings hurled herself into two art installations at the controversial exhibition of a collection belonging to the billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier, damaging both pieces, organizers said Thursday.

The bizarre attack came late Wednesday on the top floor of the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, where Friedrich Christian Flick's collection was opened to the public earlier in the day.

Yelling loudly, the 35-year-old woman attacked "Office Baroque," a cutout section of wall by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, doing a series of head-over-heels flips before landing on the work in a handstand, punching both her arms through the drywall, said Klaus Dieter Lehmann, president of Berlin's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

She then ran across the large room, pushing over a section of a spray-painted truck called "Graffiti Truck," also by Matta-Clark, bending back the metal roof.

Taken aback, a security guard called his supervisor for advice on how to react before moving to protect other pieces in the room, Lehmann said.

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[miss_kitty]

1. ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

"Pieces in the collection include...Jeff Koons' giant gold statue of Michael Jackson..."

next time, let her kill the above-mentioned, or any other Koons' piece, ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

[KurtNYC]

2. Was it this woman?

From Blade Runner?