Florence. Clet Abraham condemned to pay 10 thousand euros for having placed a statue

A few years ago Clet Abraham interviews in Florence city he loves so much. We talked for a long time of his common man statue, who placed it in total security and at his expense on the bridge "Ponte alle Grazie". I do not know if Clet's action would please everyone (many yes, though), it was certainly motivated by a crazy love for this city, which was less loved by the governments that administered it. Knowing Florence well and its deep state of degradation of its dirt its incurability, I feel hurt by this condemnation to the artist who has always been exposed in the first place, without hiding, treated as if he had done the vandalism of the worst kind. So what is Art? Is Hirst, Cattelan, the skulls of diamonds and mummies embedded in precious stones in the gods of the god money, or is it something about the urban environment, the walk of people, children, sunbathing tourists? at last, is the Art already dead or still alive?

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Patrizia Diamante