Naples, the 'vagina' of Piazza Municipio removed in response to Pesce's work

Naples. The provocative work by Milanese activist and artist Cristina Donati Meyer, who displayed a "vagina" in Naples' Piazza Municipio in response to Gaetano Pesce's phallic-like work, has been removed.

Milanese artist and activist Cristina Donati Meyer presented her work, a sculpture depicting a vagina, as a symbol of a strong feminist response and a protest against Pesce's work. Pesce's sculpture had sparked controversy due to its phallic shape.

The work has quickly become a point of interest for tourists and residents in the central Piazza Municipio of Naples, fueling curiosity and public debate.

Meyer explained to journalists that she wanted to assert equality of expression in art as well. The artist added that "there should not be a male prerogative" and that she found the display of her work "absolutely out of place." Fish"We're fed up with all these men and all this patriarchy. So let's make more room for great beauties."

A "feminist" and "artistic" provocation, as the protesters who supported the Milanese artist defined it, given that ever since Pesce's work was installed, feminists have contested, beyond the hilarity and biting popular irony, the controversial creation.

 Maier explained that it was a provocation

"I hope it's a provocation," Maier explained, "that gets people thinking. I know that many Neapolitans didn't appreciate Pesce's work at all, so I'm with them and I hope they're with me. My work is titled "The Great Beauty" because the vagina gives life. It will also be interesting to see what people who see it and comment on it think. I say long live women, long live feminist art, because Naples deserves better." In 2019, Donati Meyer directly addressed Pesce's work, "Suffering Majesty," on which the feminist artist threw red paint.