To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Dear Mr Artist, this is just not the way to turn an iconic photograph to sculpture. Robert Capa is spinning in his grave. Please, take your disgusting polystyrene work out of our sight.

Everybody knows this legendary photograph taken by Capa, the famous Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist, of Spanish anarchist militiaman Federico Borrell García at the very moment of him getting fatally shot in the head:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

SPAIN. Cordoba front. September, 1936. Death of a loyalist militiaman. Photo: Robert Capa

On the 8 October 2015 this 4-tonne and 7m high thing appeared in the middle of the Hungarian capital:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

It is ugly from the back:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Take a closer look. Yes, it is trashy:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Undemanding, to say the least:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Poor Federico what happened to your face?

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

These details make me cry:

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Seriously, WTF?

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

According to artportal.hu this cheap, and awful artwork was to remain its place until the end of October. The statue was dismantled and removed three days later.

Photos: Attila Nagy/Gizmodo

To Whom It May Concern: Why Did You Put This Ugly Piece Of Art In The Middle Of Budapest?

Photo and H/T: Robert Leifheit/Giz reader

García is dead. Capa is dead. I hope somebody killed this abomination with fire.


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