The art installation attracted controversy in recent days after it was revealed the City of Yarra council paid $22,000 for its creation, splitting public opinion, with nearby businesses calling it aThe community was shocked further this week after the taxpayer-funded statue was found vandalised, in an apparent decapitation attempt.
He was wearing a black jacket, black pants and blue face mask. He was also in possession of what appears to be a hacksaw.The City of Yarra spent a fifth of a $100,000 taxpayer-funded grant from the TAC on the artwork – dubbed “Fallen Fruit” – in Rose St, Fitzroy. A 300-word description of the artwork published on the council’s website says it attempts to “subvert” the 1970s phenomenon of oversized, kitsch roadside objects.“The work does this by employing the symbol of the banana, anthropomorphised through the inclusion of a human skol, a memento mori to meditate on our Western tendencies towards unsustainable desires and excess,” the description reads.
Is it B1 or B2?
Cue banana split comments…
$22k for a banana statue? People have lost jobs, homes, even lost their mind & in turn lost their life… that $ could of helped that shire in so many other ways,repercussions of COVID have hit many families hard
he deserves a medal
Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »