“The David is a work of art and should not be censored. It is an image of Italy. In Dubai they used a trick, a form of prudence to meet the sensitivity of a continent that has other religious principles” . This is what art critic Achille Bonito Oliva told time.news when commenting on the choice to exhibit Michelangelo’s great masterpiece at the Dubai Expo, partly ‘censored’ in some parts of the body.
And added Achille Bonito Oliva, celebrated in recent days by an exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli, ‘Abo Theatron – Art or Life’: “the Expo welcomes a very large audience that does not always have self-defense. The David is inserted inside a structure. In this way the organizers have protected it from the gaze of the public, especially the Arab one “.