Colonna Mediterranea was created by artist Paul Vella Critien and has been on show in the town of Luqa since 2006. Mr Critien responded by calling his critics "ignorant" and "uneducated".
Pope Benedict's route through Malta will involve passing by the roundabout at the entrance to Luqa, where the monument stands. "The object... is not the most fitting way in which to greet the Pope, especially by what is considered to be the most Catholic country in the world," Mr Schembri said. He said that the council would again appeal to the government to order the removal of the column.
Mr Critien said his creation was not a phallic symbol but a modern representation of a symbol dating back to ancient Egypt. He said the Pope "would look at it as a work of art. [He] is not the man in the street".
4 comments:
Perhaps they can hide it from his eyes by having the hundreds of people molested as children by priests stand in front of it. I guarantee he'd never even glance that way.
If I was that artist, I would conceal that "phallic"work of art by a cover modelled into a humongus middle-finger that is at leat twice the size of the original work of art....
What's up with the big blue arrow? And is that trash around the base? It looks like an abandoned, sorry piece of 'art'. It might look a little better if the presentation were a little more formal.
The arrow is a traffic sign. The art work is probably a centre piece of some lane dividing structur, and the arrow shows approaching drivers from which side the divider is meant to be passed. The Maltese drive on the left, by the way.
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