Rome, Italy - an art museum in northern Italy on Thursday, he continues to display a sculpture of the representation of a green frog nailed to a cross, anger Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
August earlier in the pope had sent a letter to Franz Pahl, president of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano, denunciation of the sculpture.
The museum has the statue in the lobby and in an area less frequented the third floor. He offended the religious feelings of many people, the cross as a symbol of God's love and our redemption, "Pahl, cited as the Pope wrote in the letter.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday Pahl said he was outraged by the Museum of the decision to work, he says "pokes fun at the population and the Catholic religion and insulted the pope."
The wooden sculpture from 1990 shows the frog crucified nailed by the feet and hands like Jesus Christ. The frog sautante paste eyes and language, wears a loincloth and has a pitcher of beer and an egg in his hands.
The museum, said the 3-foot-tall sculpture has nothing to do with religion, but an ironic self-portrait of the artist and an expression of its concern. "With humour and a tragi-meaning, which belongs to art since the days of Greek tragedy, Kippenberger ... faces of the suffering of his condition, he expresses in many books, including, for example , In a video in which he Kreuzigt "
August earlier in the pope had sent a letter to Franz Pahl, president of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano, denunciation of the sculpture.
The museum has the statue in the lobby and in an area less frequented the third floor. He offended the religious feelings of many people, the cross as a symbol of God's love and our redemption, "Pahl, cited as the Pope wrote in the letter.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday Pahl said he was outraged by the Museum of the decision to work, he says "pokes fun at the population and the Catholic religion and insulted the pope."
The wooden sculpture from 1990 shows the frog crucified nailed by the feet and hands like Jesus Christ. The frog sautante paste eyes and language, wears a loincloth and has a pitcher of beer and an egg in his hands.
The museum, said the 3-foot-tall sculpture has nothing to do with religion, but an ironic self-portrait of the artist and an expression of its concern. "With humour and a tragi-meaning, which belongs to art since the days of Greek tragedy, Kippenberger ... faces of the suffering of his condition, he expresses in many books, including, for example , In a video in which he Kreuzigt "
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