The French tourist who painted the old house in Lanzarote has returned it to its original state. This has been announced by the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, through his official Instagram account and by the artist herself through the same medium.
Betancort met this past Monday with the author of the mural at the Cabildo headquarters, after a wave of criticism on social media. In addition, he was against this type of artistic expressions on the architectural heritage of the island.
"The important thing is to rectify and reach a meeting point between different points of view," the island president said upon learning of the restoration of the facade.
“Art does have a place on our island, but integrating and respecting the island's heritage and culture,” Oswaldo Betancort had stated when he rejected the events and urged the artist Vanessa Alice to return the facade of this ruined house, from the 18th century and located in the Mirador de Los Valles, to how it was before the mural.
In this line, Betancort has taken the opportunity to "denounce all the hate comments that have been made towards the artist. Not everything is valid and education should always prevail. We must denounce what is not correct but without crossing limits," he concluded.
Meanwhile, Vanessa Alice has apologized again to the population and added that "she didn't know" and that if she had known "she would have chosen another wall.
"I painted with all good intentions, integrating the painting into the rural environment, using colors already existing in the house, creating a poetic and harmonious dialogue between past and present," she continued defending.
In this line, she added that in the 30 years that she has been painting murals, "legal or not" in the world, they have become "heritage of the place, tourist attraction and survive years, decades."
To conclude, she highlighted that the situation "gives her more desire to paint in places where people know, enjoy and value it."