Saturday, November 08, 2008

"Multicultural Man"

San Pedro isn't the kind of place that blushes very easily.

But when rumors began circulating this month about a bronze Italian statue coming its way, a few eyebrows were raised, even in this hard-boiled port town.

Italian sculptor Francesco Pirelli s "Monument to Multiculturalism," better known as "Multicultural Man" -- depicts a man with (gasp!) no clothes on. It is a gift from sister city Ischia, Italy. Shown above is Pirelli with his bronze statue.

With the statue still en route to the States last week, a certain mystique began to grow around the sculpture described in layman's terms by one local as "a wire globe with a guy who's got nothing on."

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