Rome, the sculptor Amedeo Longo: “Pure violence on my porchetta”

“I was a bit dumbfounded because they consider themselves animal rights activists and non-violent but what they did is pure violence”. So to Adnkronos Amedeo Longo, the young sculptor who created the statue of the ‘Porchetta’, one of the 8 works of the Piazze Romane project, at the center of numerous controversies in recent days, which has been vandalized and has been removed today for be restored. “There was a wrong interpretation of my work, which I don’t mind because it is part of the dynamics of art, but the ‘Porchetta’ is the result of irony, I certainly had no intention of offending the animal rights activists – explains Longo – I wanted just to ironically represent a porchetta, something that you eat and that is in the Roman and Italian gastronomic tradition “. Read also The 24-year-old Roman sculptor confesses to having received “insults of various kinds on my Instagram profile, which continue to arrive and which affect my other works that have nothing to do with animals. Even in the square two days ago I was heavily insulted . Today at 1 pm the work, made in a block of travertine of almost two tons, was removed to be restored and I personally went to witness the removal “. According to Longo, at the basis of the misinterpretation of ‘Porchetta’ there is also “a lack of information, nothing has been read about that work, they even told me that I had killed animals to make it … I did not even remotely imagine that could attract similar criticisms, this work was not even political and, I repeat, I had no intention of offending anyone “.” At this point – says the sculptor – I am of the idea of ​​selling the work and giving the proceeds to charity , but it is a decision that belongs to the Municipality and to Rufa, the Academy of which I am still a student. I do not know what to think anymore. I am 24 years old, I am still studying. Everyone is free to think what they believe but I do not apologize if the work has been misinterpreted “, he concludes. The work will be restored and then it will be decided whether to relocate it in Piazza della Malva in Trastevere, where it was located, or to put it elsewhere.