The 36-foot white sculpture is a hand without fingers except that vulgar one, pointing away from Milan's stock market. It was made by Italy's most famous contemporary artist, Maurizio Cattelan, who donated it to the city last year on the condition that it grace Piazza Affari, or Business Square, where the bourse has its headquarters.
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In other words, the artist presents a message of "fuck you" from the stock market to the world -- a poignant example of art as a mechanism of telling the truth.
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