In Matera

In explicable.

The town laundromat is fairly obvious, but the pig / elephant?

Some of Salvador Dali's most iconic paintings were reimagined in sculptural form: “The Space Elephant”, displayed here at almost 3 meters high in bronze echoes the 1946 oil on canvas painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony”. Elephants, according to Dalí, represent strength and the future, especially if they are weighed down by obelisks, which are a symbol of power and domination.
The deliberately fragile spindly legs cannot support the weight of the obelisk. Surreal?
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