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Oracle of DelphiMaurizio Cattelan: more shocking images
December 29th 2006 23:41
I recently covered how Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan caused a stir in Milan where he has created a work depicting three children hanging from a tree. You can see the image by clicking here.
The life-sized dummies angered Milanese residents so much that one resident, Franco Di Benedetto climbed the tree and cut the dummies down, concussing himself in the process. Local residents had grown increasingly angry about the work, one resident, Alessandra Pieroni, commenting:
"Even if it's for a good reason, I find it frightening, especially for a child or sensitive person."
The artist commented of the vandalism:
"The work itself is a commentary on violence, so it's a bit ironic if not depressing if it comes down because of an act of violence."
The self-taught Cattelan has hit the headlines in the past with confrontational artworks such as him, 2001, which portrays a miniture-sized Hitler, seemingly in peaceful prayer.
The life-sized dummies angered Milanese residents so much that one resident, Franco Di Benedetto climbed the tree and cut the dummies down, concussing himself in the process. Local residents had grown increasingly angry about the work, one resident, Alessandra Pieroni, commenting:
"Even if it's for a good reason, I find it frightening, especially for a child or sensitive person."
The artist commented of the vandalism:
"The work itself is a commentary on violence, so it's a bit ironic if not depressing if it comes down because of an act of violence."
The self-taught Cattelan has hit the headlines in the past with confrontational artworks such as him, 2001, which portrays a miniture-sized Hitler, seemingly in peaceful prayer.
Maruizio Cattelan's him, 2001 shows a miniature Hitler in pray; installation at faergfabriken, Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm
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