The Manneken Pis of Brussels he found his female counterpart in Nantes ? This summer, a version of a feminist of the “little man piss” in a fountain in the belgian capital will be established in the chief town of Loire-Atlantic.
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Named Fountain, it is the work of Elsa Sahal and will be exposed to the 8 of August on the place Royal in the framework of the Trip to Nantes. A “tribute to the figures of femininity, triumphant that adorn this set of sculptural works of the 19th century,” one can read on the website of this art installation in the City of the Dukes.
three metres high, the sculpture in glazed pink far exceeds the 55 centimeters of the piece of bronze of Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder. “She is a feminist response to the Manneken-pis of Brussels,” said Ouest-France Marie Dupas, in charge of programming the Trip to Nantes.
