Mural on Fairfax By Celebrated Street Artists Such as Revok And Norm Is Accidentally Painted Over
Update: Graffiti Control says it has stripped the whitewash today and that the mural will likely be saved. More after the jump.
They call this graffiti control.
Oops.
A graffiti removal crew accidentally started to paint over a valuable work of art on Fairfax Avenue today.
Workers from Graffiti Control Systems, which is hired by the city, started to whitewash the piece by Saber Retna Os Gemos, Revok, Rime, Norm outside Known Gallery on Fairfax about noon, gallery owner Casey Zoltan tell us.
The crew apparently stopped when the building's owner told them the year-old piece had been put up with permission, Zoltan said.
Before (see after after the jump).
The incident happened one week before MOCA was set to open an unprecedented show, Art in the Streets, featuring some of the very same artists who saw the piece whitewashed today. We're told planeloads of artists artists from around the world are coming to L.A. just to check out the MOCA event.
The company contracted by the city to do this (you can call 311 and have any wall within public sight cleaned up, we're told) is Graffiti Control Systems. We talked to sales manager Josh Woods, who seemed sincerely apologetic.
While Zoltan says the building's owner plans to sue, Woods said the company would do what it takes to restore the piece. Photo:
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