The religious feelings of devout Italians are being hurt by a deceased German artist’s representation of a crucified frog, according to culture minister Sandro Bondi.
Martin Kippenberger’s sculpture — which shows a green frog on a cross, gripping a beer on one side and an egg on the other — is on show at the modern art museum in the northern city of Bolzano.
In a statement, Bondi said the piece “hurts the religious sentiments of many people who see in the cross a symbol of the love of God,” as he lashed out at publicly funded venues that engage in “useless provocations.”
PHOTO: AFP
Under pressure from local politicians, museum officials recently decided to move the sculpture from the entrance to the third floor — but they are refusing to remove it from view altogether.
Curators say the sculpture — part of an exhibition that runs until Sept. 21 — is a self-portrait of the artist “in a profound state of crisis.” However, regional governor Luis Durnwalder has said the work is out of place in an area that is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic.
Kippenberg, a native of Dortmund who worked in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and Cologne, died in Vienna in 1997 aged 44. He was a painter, sculptor and photographer, and some of his work is at the Saatchi gallery in London.
(AFP)
義大利文化部長森卓．邦迪表示，虔誠的義大利信徒認為，一位已故德國藝術家的釘十字架青蛙雕塑，冒犯了他們的宗教。
一隻綠色青蛙被釘在十字架上，一手拿著啤酒，另一隻手上則握著一顆蛋；這件馬丁．齊潘柏格的雕塑作品，目前正在義大利北部的波札諾市當代美術館展示。
邦迪在一份聲明中表示，這件作品「觸犯了許多人的宗教信仰，十字架對他們來說是上帝愛世人的象徵」，他同時也抨擊涉入愚蠢挑釁行為的公營場所。
在當地政治人士的施壓下，館方日前決定把這件作品從大門口移至三樓展覽區，但他們拒絕撤下該作品。
美術館管理人員說，這件雕塑是這位藝術家表達「深切危機感」的自畫像。然而，該區行政首長路易斯．杜倫瓦德卻認為，這件作品在這個絕大多數都是天主教徒的地區展覽實在不太恰當；該展覽展期至九月二十一日為止。
生於多特蒙德的齊潘柏格曾在漢堡、柏林、巴黎及科隆等地創作，一九九七年於維也納逝世，享年四十四歲。他身兼畫家、雕塑家和攝影師；他的部份作品在倫敦的薩奇畫廊展出。
（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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