Windows are boarded up on the government quarter's 'Y' building with Picasso's mural art work 'The Fisherman' in Oslo, Norway. — AFP pic
On its grey cement walls are two Picasso drawings, sandblasted by Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, who collaborated with the Spaniard. “I hope it's not too late,” he says, his orange woolly hat reading “Let Y Stand,” before adding fatalistically: “But this will probably be a pile of rubble soon.”Because of the new coronavirus, protesters are linked by metre-long ribbons in a bid to keep them at a safe distance from one another.
According to Statsbygg, the public agency in charge of overseeing the demolition, the murals are to be dismantled before the end of spring. The government meanwhile insists that the demolition of “Y Block” to make space for new buildings was a difficult but necessary decision. “These are monuments that illustrate the rebuilding of Norway after the war, and everything that I associate with the development of modern society,” he says.
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