African fountain gets Pink Elephant treatment

A Danish artist who made headlines by painting an iceberg red has given South Africans an unusual gift to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid.

Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti poured a gallon of red organic dye into a fountain at Johannesburg’s Mandela Square shopping mall to beautify a “very badly-proportioned and really ugly” statue of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, standing next to the fountain.

Evaristti called the work “Pink Elephant in Mandela Square.”