“Art can be powerful, however, we totally disagree with the use of monkeys as photographs in combat opposed to racism and we did so through a general lack of consultation,” AC Milan’s team said in a tweet.
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Rome, founded in the Italian capital, said: “We perceive that the league needs to combat racism, but we don’t think it’s the right way to do it,” according to Sky News.
And Fare, an anti-discrimination football group, said in a tweet that “once again, Italian football leaves the world speechless. “
“In a country where the government doesn’t fight racism week after week, #SerieA has introduced a crusade that looks like a bad joke,” he added.
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Simone Fugazzotto, the artist who, according to Serie A, is famous all over the world for his monkey paintings, said in Monday’s presentation that his goal is to “return the concept to racists, because we are all monkeys originally,” according to Sky News.
“When Serie A commissioned a portrait opposed to racism last May, I quickly had the idea of portraying a Western monkey, an Asian monkey and a black monkey, because I would like to replace people’s perceptions through my portraits,” he added in a posted on the league’s website. “My portraits completely reflect the values of fair play and tolerance, I use monkeys as a metaphor for humans because the color of our skin is not important. “
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Luigi De Siervo, CEO of Serie A, added that the league will “fight against all the bureaucracy of prejudice and we know that racism is an endemic and complex problem. “
So far, the league is next to the paintings, Sky News reports, that “real art is provocation. “