The towering statues that include thousands of pounds of bronze and stainless steel are taking the artist and director Sir Daniel Wayne for more than a year to complete it.
They disappeared on the weekend.
Police believe that on at least 14 or 15 June, at least one wallow with “ICARUS” inside and “Homme Mechanics” – statues valued at $ 2.1 million – from an depot in Anheim Hills. Other artworks and precious things were inside the warehouse that was easy to move. The authorities have little details about theft.
Unfortunately, we have a little information but we are achieving, “SGT Anheim Police. He said Matt Sotter.
It depicts the work of “Homme”, which consists of Lusit, bronze and stainless steel, a winged man and a horn, and he appeared in the short movie “Creation” in 2022.
A second piece, “ICARUS IN”, partially depends on the escape of the chaotic childhood of the sculptor from Vietnam, a statue of steel and bronze with a length of 8 feet, weighs a ton, and its value is 350,000 dollars.
Both statues were stored in a temporary facility and the last time was seen by Anheim Hills warehouse workers on Saturday, according to the Anheim Police Department.
When workers returned to the facility on Monday, both pieces were missing, according to the police.
Wayne believes that the pieces may be stolen by the Unemployed Mosque while the artistic recovery expert suspected that the statues will be destroyed for metal injury.
Win said: “These sculptures usually take, when we make exhibitions, about ten men and two fork cranes to move them and a flat truck or a truck to carry them,” Wayne said. “This is not an easy task.”
Wayne told the Times that the past few days have been stressful and that his anxiety was “through the ceiling”. Win is considered Blue chip artistThis means that his work is very required and has a high cash value.
The medical student at the University of California in Irvin, who was homeless in the past after replacing his specialization from medicine to art, said that he mixes fine arts, metaphysics and philosophy in his work.
He owns the Vietnamese refugee Wayne Slavin Fine Art Gallery On Rodeo Drive and it was He was appointed earlier this month As an art commissioner at John Wayne Airport.
He said that the loss of his art pushed Win to “a dark place”, although he found some vents in talking about the situation.
“These are my children,” said about each of his individual works. “I have no physical and public children. Every artwork I create is my child.”
It was larger than statues, “Homme”, is the seventh and only work in the mechanical series, which explores philosophical concepts and comprehensive facts and tries to answer the permanent question: Why are we here?
The younger “Icarus Inside” focused on Nidal Win at the age of nine in the migration to the United States in the last days of the Vietnam War. The sculpture was linked to the movie “Chrysalis”, based on his memoirs, which the Prime Minister is supposed to be this fall.
Wayne said that the level of development in theft led him to doubt that he was targeted and that his cut may be on the black market.
He said he had a list of individuals who recently inquired about his sculptures to the police.
This is the largest robbery he seen in the department, Sogter, Sogter, said that this is the biggest robbery he seen in 25 years with the department.
“We got our share of the high -end homes that were stolen, but this type of crime, which involves a thorn, trucks, kits, and the huge size of sculptures is something that I cannot remember before.”
Souter said that investigators are asking about companies near the warehouse about any footage that could help them identify the suspect.
“I have no idea about the location of these statues,” Souter said. “They can be in a person’s house or in a shipping container somewhere. This is what we are trying to discover.”
Chris Marinilo, founder of dispute settlement and recovery of art Art of international recoveryHe said it is possible that the statues of the minerals will be canceled.
Marinilo said the scrap arenas tear such works in thousands of small pieces to inhibit the origin of the metal.
“Unfortunately, criminals are not bright and do not see artwork, but instead, a statue of millions is more valuable for them for raw minerals such as steel and bronze,” said Marinilo.
Marinilo referred to a Bronze Henry Moore Boco TunIt is known as the character of Recling, stolen from the Artist Foundation in Herfordshire, England in 2005.
The value of this piece reached 3 million pounds, but the authorities believe that it was canceled for only 1500 pounds.
“You cannot sell sculptures of this size on the market,” said Marinilo about the stolen pieces in Wayne.
