The sculpture was commissioned by the mayor of Monopoli, in the Puglia region, and installed near a children’s playground.
After the school board of Florida, in the United States, qualified the Michelangelo’s “David” as pornographica New statue causes uproar for being “too provocative”“.
It is a sculpture of a mermaidcalled “Il Mare” (“The Sea”), recently installed in the fishing town of Monopolibelonging to the Puglia region, Italy.
The statue was created by students of the Luigi Rosso art school in Monopolias part of a series of pieces commissioned by the mayor for a project of city redevelopment, and settled in Rita Levi-Montalcini square. Despite the fact that it was still officially inaugurated, it has already begun to cause a stir on social networks, consider it “vulgar” and “provocative”.
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For his part, Adolf Marciano, director of the Luigi Rosso art schoolexplained that the sculpture is a “tribute to the vast majority of women with curves“and who sees the work as a realistic representation of the female body.
“On television you see ads with very thin models, but the mermaid is like a tribute to the vast majority of women who have curves, especially in our country. It would have been very wrong if we had portrayed an extremely thin womanRosso told The Guardian.
Source: Ambito
