“We were doing guerrilla art for the sake of doing art.” One Friday night after the mermaid was finished, the artists got together. “We waited for the full moon. We wanted to dedicate her to ...

"The debate aroused by the Mermaid ... remains of an ancient and out-of-the-time way of looking at the female (or male) body," Adolfo Marciano, principal of the IISS Luigi Russo art high school ...