Florence, dangerously balances on Uffizi terrace: I did it to be famous

He flanked Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon statue, placed on the balustrade of the Uffizi terrace in Florence, and hovered dangerously, so much so that it was feared he wanted to jump: the protagonist of the episode that occurred this morning, March 1, is Vaclav Pisvejc, a 51-year-old man who calls himself an artist. The man is no stranger to such gestures: he had last September attacked Marina Abramović, who had come to Palazzo Strozzi for her retrospective exhibition The Cleaner, hitting her with a canvas on the head.

In the incident that occurred this morning, firefighters intervened by cordoning off the square and placing a special cloth under the terrace to cushion the possible throwing.

Pisvejc reportedly wanted to meet with the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, to “make a fuss” and be known as an artist. Once law enforcement intervened, at the barracks the man met privately with Schmidt and asked to see his paintings. He stated that he did not really want to jump, but made the sensational gesture because he wanted to be famous.

He was reported for procuring.

Florence, dangerously balances on Uffizi terrace: I did it to be famous

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