Rom. The creator of the famous Wall Street bull in New York, Arturo Di Modica, is dead. According to the news agencies Ansa and Adnkronos, he died on Friday evening at the age of 80 in the Italian province of Ragusa in Sicily. According to the newspaper “La Repubblica”, the artist had been fighting cancer for many years. On Monday he is to be buried in the city of Vittoria, as Ansa wrote.
Sicily regional president Nello Musumeci wrote on Facebook that he was moved when he learned of Di Modica’s death. Even though he lived in the USA for a long time, Di Modica was always inextricably linked with Sicily, it said. Di Modica had lived in the United States for more than 40 years.
In a night and fog action, he set up the sculpture
His most famous work is the Wall Street Bull or Charging Bull in Manhattan’s financial district near the New York Stock Exchange. The bronze sculpture shows a grim bull and is popular with many tourists. Di Modica wanted to symbolize the image of the growing stock market, he told La Repubblica in a recent interview.
In a night and fog action in December 1989 he and 40 others illegally erected the sculpture, which weighed tons, on the stock exchange, Di Modica told the newspaper. The stock exchange bosses didn’t like that and they had them removed. In the end it ended up at Park Bowling Green, where it still stands today.
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