New York,
With her fists on her hips, her bun in the wind and her sharp gaze, the girl had challenged the City and Wall Street for almost four years.
Fearless Girl
(
The Girl Without Fear
), is the name of this bronze statue, 1.20 meters and 110 kg of childish impetuosity, had his New York license expire on 30 November and could be unsealed one day at the other, while waiting for Big Apple and its official owner, the financial firm State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), to decide the fate of the work planted in front of the facade of the New York Stock Exchange (Nyse).
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Originally, the statue imagined by the Uruguayan artist Kristen Visbal was erected in front of another famous sculpture, the enraged bull by Italian Arturo Di Modica, on the eve of International Women's Rights Day, in 2017. The aim was to promote gender parity in the very closed world of finance.
A challenge, which well justified such a provocation.
His detractors didn't care
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