By Gauri Sinh
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| "Pieta/The Death of Magic" (2008) By Julius Macwan |
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| Julius Macwan in formal skirt |
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Painter of Pieta Turned Away from Vatican for Wearing Skirt
Posted on 23:08 by cena mical
DAILY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Gauri Sinh
VATICAN CITY - Mumbai-based artist Julius Macwan has felt strongly about women’s causes for a long time — in solidarity of which he wears skirts. But this very ‘rule breaking’ got him into a bit of a conundrum in Rome last week. Julius, a Roman Catholic by birth, was forbidden from entering the Vatican because he was in a skirt. “I was in a state of shock, my mind was numb,” Macwan, now back in Mumbai, recalled. “My most famous work is inspired by the Pieta, it is also called the Pieta/The Death of Magic. [link]
By Gauri Sinh
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