Claudio Orrego announced on this date that the Council of National Monuments had ordered the suspension of cleaning the Alameda statues, which he called “unusual”. The aforementioned organization explained why the decision was made.
He states that during a recent visit, the conservative restoration expert of the CMN Technical Secretariat confirmed that the four monuments between Vergara Street and Almirante Latorre Street – Simon Bolivar; The Swiss Community of Chile; Caros Walker Martinez, and George Canning – “were treated with highly invasive, aggressive procedures and methods, including high-pressure water washing, without a diagnosis of their condition, which caused irreversible damages to the pieces, and a loss of original materials In a statement, he states that, “given the situation and the fact that guidelines and technical instructions for the performance of cleaning tasks on the MPs were previously delivered via email to the ST CMN, they requested that, by September 26th, this system be suspended. This would not affect the maintenance work, as it can still be done using other methods. The ST CMN offered their support in this regard.
The CMN team, he says, explained to the Alameda Providencia Axis Project Coordinator and Technical Assistant Manager the reason for the damage and other methods of cleaning. This meeting took place Friday, September 29. The report states that the same meeting agreed on a test field of cleaning methods to be carried out this Friday (October 13). In the meantime, yesterday in a meeting of the Historical Heritage Commission of the CMN it was decided to ask the GORE to “adjust its intervention procedures according to the guidelines annexed to the CMN”. This must then be forwarded to the council to evaluate. The Technical Secretariat of CMN is also preparing a report on the conservation status of public monuments that will be forwarded to GORE as information. There will also be a site visit with GORE in order to test the procedures proposed and the possible interventions. In a statement, the National Monuments Council states that the Regional Government of Santiago has “highly valued the initiative of recovering public spaces, memorial monuments, and heritage buildings” and they “have tried to provide technical assistance for these high patrimonial, and social, benefit works”. He reiterated “his willingness to work together in pursuit of an outcome that will guarantee the preservation of monuments for the long term.” Claudio Orrego, the Governor of the State, criticised the National Monuments Council’s decision and asked why “now the people who caused the damages are those that clean up.” The state of Santiago’s monuments and facades is appalling. As the Government of Santiago, we decided to restore and clean the monuments after years of graffiti and vandalism. It is therefore strange to us when the Council of National Monuments tells us we must suspend work while the perpetrators of this vandalism go unpunished. “This seems to be the opposite of what is happening,” said he.
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