As Rodney Dangerfield used to say, I just dont get any respect! Poor old Polish Pope, his statue (the original one had to be re-done as it was deemed to be too ugly) the other day got a special nomination from CNN: its made the list of the eight ugliest works of art in the world! Its located directly in front of Romes Termini train station (and Italys largest station too). An art critic, Ian Aitch, apparently has compared the statue of Pope JPII to Il Duce and to Mussolini whos trying to kidnap a minor! Poor Oliviero Rainaldi, the artist, in the same ballpark as old Rodney! demotix/news/1617052/statue-old-polish-pope-once-again-unveiled-heart-rome#media-1617020
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:56:51 +0000