Colorful TT artworks on facades to prevent graffiti, with that approach, property owner Colliers hopes to remove the feeling of deterioration around the Mercury Center in Assen. But that message does not seem to have completely come over with the people who have now edited the artworks with spray cans.
For Wednesday, the unveiling of the TT artworks on the facade between Mercuriusplein and Weiersstraat is planned, but before that time a polish is needed. About one of the murals of artist Michel Velt stood words such as ‘Nukem’ and ‘Stop V2K’ and two black birds were made. This has been updated, but again the work is daubing, now with the letters ‘APO’. And letters have also been sprayed over a second wall painting.
“You don’t want this,” says the brand new Asser inner city director Edwin Boomstra. But he is not very angry about it either. “Fortunately, there is not really spraying on the images themselves. If you look closely, it is very specific in color areas. So you can almost say that it is still done with any respect. In any case, it can be repaired and we ensure that the artworks can be seen in full glory on Wednesday.”
The artwork at the Mercury Center is an initiative of the property owner. It concerns several murals that together form a work of art of 190 square meters, inspired by a hundred years of TT in Assen. The walls at that location are regularly sprayed with graffiti and that, according to the initiator, creates a sense of “deterioration and insecurity”. With the TT-Tongebone, he wants to provide a colorful positive solution.
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