(19 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
Rome - 19 November 2012
1. Wide of new Pope John Paul II statue
2. Close-up of John Paul II statue's face
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Oliviero Rainaldi, Artist who designed the statue:
"From difficulties, sometimes new ideas are born. And that is what happened. Solutions were found that were impossible to come up with before. They were small solutions. The main idea has remained the same."
FILE: Rome - 20 May 2011
4. Tilt-up of original version of the statue
5. Close-up of head on original statue
Rome - 19 November 2012
6. Wide of revamped statue with people and media gathered around it
7. Close-up of revamped statue's face
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Umberto Broccoli, Head of Department for Cultural Heritage for the city of Rome:
"We live in a country that is beautiful for this (kind of argument). We live in a country that has 50 million (m) football coaches, 50 million (m) art critics, 50 million (m)politicians, and so on. The arguments are interesting, but I have to say one thing. Contemporary art, as long as it has existed, should never be judged. With contemporary art you have to wait for years to pass before judging it."
9. Close-up of head of statue
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alberto Donella, Vox Pop:
"It's not him. It's not him. He was joyful. What he was, has nothing to do with this statue here. For me it is still a refrigerator."
11. Wide of statue
12. Mid of photographers
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elena Borghese, Vox Pop:
"The statue is nice. It would be nicer in another piazza, I don't know. I hope it doesn't become a place where people throw their trash."
14. Wide of people looking at statue
FILE: Rome - 20 May 2011
13. Tilt-up of original version of the statue
14. Close-up of head on original statue
STORYLINE
The city of Rome unveiled a revamped statue of Pope John Paul II on Monday after the first one was pilloried by the public and the Vatican.
Artist Oliviero Rainaldi said he was pleased with the final product, saying it matched his original vision.
He blamed workers for a botched assemblage the first time around.
When the larger-than-life statue was first unveiled in May 2011, it was widely criticised by passers-by as looking more like Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini than the beloved Polish pope.
The Vatican's own art critic wrote that it looked like a "bomb" had landed.
The artist who designed the statue, Oliviero Rainaldi, attending the unveiling an spoke positively about the challenges that met the original version.
"From difficulties, sometimes new ideas are born," he said.
"Solutions were found that were impossible to come up with before. They were small solutions. The main idea has remained the same."
The revisions unveiled on Monday focus on the pope's face.
He smiles now and has a neck and more defined chin rather than a stern expression on a bowling-ball-shaped head.
His outstretched arm, with his cloak opened in a gesture of welcoming and protection, is straightened out.
The bronze's greenish hue is also evened out, the dark brown stains that marked the head and cloak mostly removed.
And the statue now has its own enclosed pedestal rather than the patch of grass and bush that surrounded it previously.
"Contemporary art, as long as it has existed, should never be judged. With contemporary art you have to wait for years to pass before judging it," said Umberto Broccoli, the Head of the Department for Cultural Heritage for the city of Rome.
Still, passers-by on Monday were not shy about offering their opinions on the statue's second inauguration day.
Commuter Alberto Donella, was not convinced.


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