Filed in archive
European insider
by Melissa Petri on September 21, 2005
Apart from the obvious, need another reason to go to Italy?
It's a 200 ft. long toy rabbit, designed by Viennese art group Gelatin. According to one of artist, Wolfgang Gantner, "It's supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can't help but smile."
This art piece (let me use that term loosely) lies high in the Colletto Fava mountain, in northern Italy's Piedmont region.
I still can't decide how I feel about this pink monstrosity.
How to reach Artesina
By car: motorway Turin � Savona, exit Mondov�, then follow the signs for Frabosa, Prato Nevoso, Artesina.
By train: on the route Turin � Savona, Mondov� is the closest railway station.
By plane: closest international Airports are Turino (2 h by car), Genova (2 h by car), Nice (3 h by car)
It's a 200 ft. long toy rabbit, designed by Viennese art group Gelatin. According to one of artist, Wolfgang Gantner, "It's supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can't help but smile."
This art piece (let me use that term loosely) lies high in the Colletto Fava mountain, in northern Italy's Piedmont region.
"The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbit�s body, a country dropped from the sky;
ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and
intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit. I love the rabbit the rabbit loves me."
I still can't decide how I feel about this pink monstrosity.
How to reach Artesina
By car: motorway Turin � Savona, exit Mondov�, then follow the signs for Frabosa, Prato Nevoso, Artesina.
By train: on the route Turin � Savona, Mondov� is the closest railway station.
By plane: closest international Airports are Turino (2 h by car), Genova (2 h by car), Nice (3 h by car)
Permalink: Travel to Italy to see a giant Pink Rabbit
Tags:
Turin
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/9563
Addthis
Ask
Blinklist
del.icio.us
Digg
Fark
Facebook
Google
Lycos
Ma.gnolia
Mr Wong
Netscape
Netvousz
Newsvine
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Slashdot
Tailrank
Technorati
Wink
Yahoo
Vote for Travel to Italy to see a giant Pink Rabbit:
|
Rating: 10.00 out of 1 vote(s) cast.
|
Response from:
Cyclone Bea
(08/14/06 7:22pm)
I am making a pilgrimage to see the pink rabbit in December with my husband and daughter. We are hoping it will snow so we can use sleds on the pink rabbit.
Response from:
Marriage Counselor
(06/12/07 3:23pm)
That's one big pink rabbit. But why pink ? i know rabbits are cute and fluffy and all that but pink is a little bit gay.
Subscribe
Use the search to look for other interesting posts
| RSS |  See all blog subscribe options |
 What is RSS? | |
| Yahoo! |
|
| Addthis |
|
| Bloglines |
|
| Newsletter | |
| Follow us on Twitter! |
