Iginio De Luca installs black-and-white Italian flag at Colosseum for Republic Day

For the Festa della Repubblica on June 2, 2020, Roman artist Iginio De Luca installed a black-and-white Italian flag in front of the Colosseum in Rome. The flagpole is a sawed-off pine trunk that normally serves as an impromptu pedestal for tourists taking photos. De Luca, known for his urban blitzes, chose this symbolic location now often silent due to reduced tourism. He stated: 'Instead of smiles and studied poses, now there is emptiness, wind, and seagulls. In what was supposed to be the center of the world, now a symbol of doubt and uncertainty hovers.' An update on June 5, 2020, notes that the flag is materially identical to Loredana Di Lillo's Black and White Italian Flag (2010).