'Venus of the Rags' to rise from ashes in Italy's Naples

By Giulia Segreti

ROME, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A 巨大(な) open-空気/公表する art 取り付け・設備 by Italian 同時代の artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, destroyed in an 放火(罪) attack in July in Naples, will be given new life in the city, 地元の 当局 said on Friday.

The new 見解/翻訳/版 of the "Venus of the Rags" will be 明かすd in January and 始める,決める up again in Piazza del Municipio, a monumental square in the heart of the southern Italian city, for four months.

It will 吸収する what was left from the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 of the 初めの artwork, art critic Vincenzo Trione explained, "to show that it is possible to rise from the ashes, not only metaphorically".

The new 見解/翻訳/版 will be made of 解雇する/砲火/射撃-proof 構成要素.

"取って代わるing it is not only about aesthetics but is also a political gesture that shows that we will not stop," Naples 市長 Gaetano Manfredi told a news 会議/協議会.

The piece of art was a 10 metre-tall (32.81 ft) sculpture of the goddess of love, beauty and fertility, turned backwards and 直面するing into a pile of rags.

The 初めの "Venus of the Rags" was created in 1967 and さまざまな 見解/翻訳/版s are on 陳列する,発揮する in museums across Europe, 含むing the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, northern England.

"It's an 驚くべき/特命の/臨時の occasion for me. I would have never thought in 1967 that I would find myself once again immersed in this piece of art," Pistoletto said, 追加するing that "we must now 傷をいやす/和解させる (Venus)".

The 取り付け・設備 is meant to 伝える the juxtaposition between eternal beauty, 代表するd by Venus, and modern society's social degradation and consumerism.

Pistoletto, 90, will 完全に 財政/金融 the new artwork, which will be 永久的に 寄付するd to Napl es.

The money raised through a (人が)群がる-基金ing 成果/努力 開始する,打ち上げるd after the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 will be used to 財政/金融 事業/計画(する)s by 非,不,無-利益(をあげる) organisations supporting people with disabilities and 女性(の) 囚人s. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Giulia Segreti Editing by Keith Weir and Tomasz Janowski)

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