(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 9 - Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi on
Monday hailed an unauthorised artwork representing a vagina
which a Milanese artist and activist showed for about an hour
next to an installation by artist Gaetano Pesce which has
stirred mirth for its unintentional phallic appearance.
"I believe that art, especially contemporary art - but not only
if we also think of classical art, when it was contemporary in
its eras - has always been conflict, provocation, debate. So I
see the initiative in a positive way", said Manfredi, commenting
on the vagina by Cristina Donati Meyer, whose installation was
not authorized, and which was then removed with the intervention
of the Police. (ANSA).