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TEC-CH Blog: What's new with Fontana di Trevi? It's red!

Sunday 21 October 2007

What's new with Fontana di Trevi? It's red!

Few days ago, in Rome, a man throwed a tin of red paint in the water of the Fontana di Trevi: the result is what you can see in the photo (more photos here). This act has been claimed by a futurist social movement and, by the way, has not affected the structure of the fountain (now the water is the same as it has been for centuries).

The whole blog community is in favor of this act, because it makes possible to approach to art in a new and inusual way; also Vittorio Sgarbi (cultural assessor in Milan and well known art critic) says this is a real futuristic act, and there's not any need to condemn it, also because there has not been any damage. On the contrary, all politics are condemning it as an act of pure vandalism.

And you? What do you think about that?

2 Comments:

At 22 October 2007 at 10:18 , Blogger amalia said...

It is a contagious art movement :) this summer the fountains in one of the central plazas in Romania have been painted in different colours. See: http://asapblogs.typepad.com/news/2007/06/photo-spotlig-7.html Comments on this artistic act have been mostly negative, though; maybe also because of an incredibly hot summer when people would have enjoyed the presence of pure water rather than hybrid street art.

 
At 23 October 2007 at 19:16 , Blogger Nasos said...

Neither art nor pure vandalism..Social movements would be more helpful if they would focus on the real problems of humanity (poverty, racism, war, environment...)No matter the color those guys ad, the real artist, is still the sculptor of the Fontana Di Trevi...

 

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