Naples’ Impressive Erection – IOTW Report

Naples’ Impressive Erection

Reuters

A new 12-metre artwork in one of Naples’ main squares by the late Italian designer Gaetano Pesce has raised eyebrows for its phallic appearance, coupled with a suggestive name.

The cylindrical creation, called “Tu si’ ‘na cosa grande” (“You’re a big thing” in local dialect), is described as representing the stylised costume of the classic Neapolitan “Commedia dell’Arte” character Pulcinella.

Pesce’s work replaced Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” – a supersized version of a classical Roman sculpture next to a mound of discarded clothes – on display in the Piazza del Municipio in the southern Italian city. More

21 Comments on Naples’ Impressive Erection

  1. You’ve got to be kidding. Art? Perhaps the entire world has suffered from some rare virus that eats away at brain cells or some type mass psychosis. It appears that the US isn’t the only place affected by insanity (or embracing it).

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  2. Wild Bill, I actually watched Flesh Gordon at a midnight movie on a Saturday night in San Diego in 1974. Don’t ask me why, a friend and I used to go to midnight movies on Saturday nights including the old Mickey Mouse cartoon where Mickey gets higher than a kite and hallucinates from being poisoned by bug spray when he was killing bugs.

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  3. “Big deal, half the population is, can, has, will get them.”

    I’ve read reports that currently in the U.S. less than 30% of men are capable of getting a stiffy. I’m thinking that’s probably true. Does Walz get a tool he can use on his idiot wife? No fing way.

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  4. geoff….

    we also saw flesh gordon at a drive-in in our old studebaker in new jersey….place was struck by lightning as we left, lectic lines jumping around all over the place….

    ….we survived…… 🙂

    ….once is happenstance, of course…….lol…..decade later we “evacuated” kutztown folk festival in pennsylvania with tingly tingly feet in the mud in a lightning storm….twice is coincidence…..

    nuther decade, we watched as our whole newly acquired six acres was full of “dancing moles”….actually, lightning had struck us again, and we had no moles for years and years….not exactly enemy action, but close…. 🙂

    lightning may not strike the same place, but maybe it follows its favorite people……..

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  5. “I’m wondering what Gaetano Pesce wanted to go for with this new installation,” a local (female) resident said.

    How can you miss what he was “going for”? 🙄

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