Artist’s gift to South African

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.

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”.