A low-life thief swiped high art from a City Hall Park exhibit, cops said on Thursday.
The crook made off with a chunk of a $6,000 copper statue — created by a provocative Vietnamese sculptor — on Tuesday, police sources said.
Danh Vo in 2009.Flickr/TeamArtinBerlinThe 40-pound installation featured a chain-link design by the politically-charged artist Danh Vo. It was on loan to the city from the renowned Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris, sources said.
A (not yet fully constructed) piece of Danh Vo’s art exhibit, “We The People” set to be unveiled this Saturday.Facebook/Public Art FundThe art was set to be unveiled in the leafy space near City Hall on Saturday — but the thief struck while workers were setting it up, the sources said.
Vo, whose his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat, often creates contemporary art with social and political themes.
He has exhibitions in Germany, Portugal and China — and won the esteemed Hugo Boss prize in 2012.
“We can confirm that a small part of the artwork disappeared from the park during installation, and a police investigation is underway,” a rep from the Public Art Fund said.
