Somewhere over the Rainbow
PR dla Zagranicy
Jo Harper
27.08.2015 15:18
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Farewell to Warsaw’s Rainbow
The Rainbow installation, which had made its mark as the most headlined open-air art piece in the Polish capital of the last decade, has officially gone from Warsaw’s Zbawiciela Square.
Plac Zbawiciela, Warsaw. Photo: wikimedia commons/Adrian Grycuk
To some a symbol of perversion, to others the loudest emblem for tolerance yet. No other art piece in the country has triggered such a nationwide debate, nor polarised society to such extent in decades.
The nine-metre-tall installation, located at Zbawiciela Square since 2012, has just been dismantled as a contract with the city authorities for its placement there expires by the end of the year.
“I think the Rainbow was a mirror [for our society],” Julita Wójcik told our reporter Alicja Baczyńska about the sculpture which was torched seven times in its three-year stint in the city centre.
“That’s why I actually started to be a voice for the LGBT community. These groups told me the Rainbow did more than they tried to do for years in Poland,” she added.
Several hundred people looked on as the installation was pulled apart late into the night. The art piece will be taken over by the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.