translated from Spanish: Sculptor of the Wax Museum: “I’ve been treated like a rag”

After Marcelo Ríos’ criticism of his sculpture at the newly opened Wax Museum in Las Condes, the sculptor Rómulo Aramburú afrimed to feel “very bad” and considers that he has been “treated like a rag”. Through his Instagram, number 1 noted: “Who the fuck can think of making that statue bones are all the same, typical of Chile in a hurry and badly done”, criticizing not only his figure and all the others on display at the Las Condes wax museum. Marcelo Ríos strongly criticizes the sculptures of the Wax Museum of Las Condes: “Typical of Chile, in a hurry and badly done” “I felt horrible, very bad, I find him all reason. But he should have investigated what was going on. He criticizes what he sees, but the ‘Chino’ Rivers I did is another one,” the artist explained to Emol. Aramburú says that both the work of the tennis player and others “are not the originals as I left them. Looks like they’ve been scraped and retouched. I don’t want people to think that I say my job is perfect, I know I have mistakes.” On the sculpture of Ríos he continued with that “I wanted to know him personally, but he never wanted me to take the measures. According to the manager, he gave permission. I based myself on photographs only and we adapted the measurements on that. But now it turns out it has another light, it’s changed, other clothes, squat neck, I’m finding so many details, here’s a bad intention.” The artist also says he is hurt by the treatment he has received from Andrea Said, the museum’s manager. “I’ve been treated like a rag. Investigate who retouched my work, they will realize I wasn’t the right person, it was a tremendous disrespect, they took me into the depths of my being,” he said. “I taught him, he was my assistant. I didn’t talk to him, he made an ugly move on me, and I took him off the phone. Now they want to put him like another sculptor, he’s done nothing. He started helping me with three months left,” he said, referring to Luis López, who was in charge of “retouching” the jobs.

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